Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Capturing Dorothy Hartley's point that there was "a dislocation of the food supply" during the Industrial Revolution, the poor laws, the game and corn laws, this section would begin with the date of Thomas Malthus's "Principle of Population" (1798) to capture voices invoked during the lead up to the Reform Bill of 1832.

Gail Turley Houston, Professor, British and Irish Literary Studies, University of New Mexico, USA

Volume 1: 'Guttllng and Guzzlling': The Immiseration of the Poor, or 'Perish[ing] from the table of nature' (1795-1840) Acknowledgements Bibliography List of Abbreviations General Introduction Volume 1 Introduction Part 1. War, Taxation and the End of the Social Contract 1. Isaac Eaton, The Tocsin. The British Tocsin, or Proofs of National Ruin, 4th ed., London: Daniel Isaac Eaton, 1795, pp. 4-18, 23, 27-28, 31-34, 38, 53. 2. Anon., 'The Grumblers', Town and country magazine, or, Universal repository of knowledge, instruction, and entertainment, 27 (1795), pp. 200-1. 3. Sir Francis Burdett, 'Speech', Commons Sitting, Hansard, HC, Volume 13, Images 11, 4, 15, 6 (12 November 1800). 4. The weavers and townspeople of Royton, 'Handbill issued by the weavers and townspeople of Royton in May 1808, after Partiament rejected a bill to guarantee the weavers a minimum wage', 30 May 1808. 5. 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