
The History of the Bread Riot, Part 1
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What Is a Bread Riot?
The structure of the bread riot is shaped inexorably by the sort of political and economic conditions around it. So instead of doing that, we're starting in the late 17 hundreds,. There's a lot of very well documented bread riots in the u k, in france. But ye, food riots took several forms. A, the blockader trave that prevented the export of grain from an area in which shortages existed. B, the price riot, or taxation populare, in which food was seized by protesters. C agrarian demonstrations in which farmers destroyed their own produce as a dramatic protest.
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