IN RECENT YEARS A NUMBER OF HISTORIANS have been at pains to point out that the patterns and nature of public disorders in eighteenth-century Ireland are largely comparable with those that existed elsewhere in contemporary Western Europe. Irish riots and popular protests, it has been suggested, saw ‘a controlled and discriminating use of violence’, and were characterised by their ‘defensive, ri...

Social institutions impact growth by redistributing resources to the young, the poor, the old, and the sick. This paper empirically substantiates that England’s premodern social institutions–specifically, the Old Poor Law (1601-1834)–contributed to her transition to the modern economy. It reduced violent, innovation-inhibiting reactions from the economic agents threatened by economic change. Th...

Early-modern improvement writers thought that most of the land within royal forests was not exploited to its full potential and argued that conversion to cultivation would render that land more productive and its inhabitants more industrious.1 During the first four decades of the seventeenth century various improvement projects were thrust upon the community at Duffield (Derbyshire), culminatin...

What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux This paper examines the evolving effects of England’s Old Poor Law (1601-1834). It establishes that poor relief reduced social unrest from around the late-17th century through the turn of the 19th century, at which point it began to spur population growth and its social stability effects dissipated. These conclusions are based on a new datase...

We introduce and analyze several variants of a system of differential equations which model the dynamics of social outbursts, such as riots. The systems involve the coupling of an explicit variable representing the intensity of rioting activity and an underlying (implicit) field of social tension. Our models include the effects of exogenous and endogenous factors as well as various propagation ...

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The riots in Stockholm in May 2013 were an event that reverberated in the world media for its dimension of violence that had spread through the Swedish capital. In this study we have investigated the role of social media in creating media phenomena via text mining and natural language processing. We have focused on two channels of communication for our analysis: Twitter and Poloniainfo.se (Foru...

This paper is an attempt to investigate the violence and communal riots followed by division of India, especially partition Punjab. The that occurred in Punjab during India (1947) a tragic episode South Asian history. Almost seven decades have gone since At time partition, Rawalpindi, Ambala, Multan, Lahore, Jullundur had Muslim majority It was Rawalpindi wherefrom were begun compare whole In d...

The present research examines the perceptions of Indonesian civilians regarding May 1998 riots, which occurred at end period military dictatorship in Indonesia and included looting, rapes, murders, disproportionately targeting Chinese Indonesians. Using a mixed methods approach, explores intersectionality ethnicity gender as factors associated with e...