ANDY WOOD is Senior Lecturer in social history at the University of East Anglia.

'A quite superb synthesis of a vast range of secondary literature and a considerable bulk of original archival material. This is the book scholars of popular protest have been waiting for.' - Steve Hindle, University of Warwick 'Wood's book is a thoughtful essay that synthesizes effectively the important work of social, cultural, and political historians...' - Choice 'The book is accessible. Written like a good textbook, it does not assume too much prior knowledge of academic controversy on the part of its readers.' - David Renton, Revolutionary History

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Interpreting popular politics in early modern EnglandAuthority, the law and the stateRebellion in Sixteenth Century EnglandRiot and Popular Politics in Early Modern EnglandThe Politics of the People in Stuart EnglandIndex.

ANDY WOOD is Senior Lecturer in social history at the University of East Anglia.

'A quite superb synthesis of a vast range of secondary literature and a considerable bulk of original archival material. This is the book scholars of popular protest have been waiting for.' - Steve Hindle, University of Warwick 'Wood's book is a thoughtful essay that synthesizes effectively the important work of social, cultural, and political historians...' - Choice 'The book is accessible. Written like a good textbook, it does not assume too much prior knowledge of academic controversy on the part of its readers.' - David Renton, Revolutionary History

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Interpreting popular politics in early modern EnglandAuthority, the law and the stateRebellion in Sixteenth Century EnglandRiot and Popular Politics in Early Modern EnglandThe Politics of the People in Stuart EnglandIndex.

ANDY WOOD is Senior Lecturer in social history at the University of East Anglia.

'A quite superb synthesis of a vast range of secondary literature and a considerable bulk of original archival material. This is the book scholars of popular protest have been waiting for.' - Steve Hindle, University of Warwick 'Wood's book is a thoughtful essay that synthesizes effectively the important work of social, cultural, and political historians...' - Choice 'The book is accessible. Written like a good textbook, it does not assume too much prior knowledge of academic controversy on the part of its readers.' - David Renton, Revolutionary History

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Interpreting popular politics in early modern EnglandAuthority, the law and the stateRebellion in Sixteenth Century EnglandRiot and Popular Politics in Early Modern EnglandThe Politics of the People in Stuart EnglandIndex.