Peasant Rebellions in history

[Hexen]

I found a list from Wikipedia about Peasant Rebellions throughout history.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_peasant_revolts

also has anyone noticed that most historians take from a Ruling Class POV not about the peasants themselves?

[scarletghoul]

They miss out quite a few, especially modern ones. Will have to edit it later.

[JacobVardy]

I remember reading somewhere that there was a standard operating procedure across peasant revolts: burn the castle; burn the tax and/or property records; kill every man, woman and child noble you can catch because this lowers the chance that someone will inherit. The source was arguing that this indicated a tradition of revolt that continued across generations and locations. That peasants often talked about revolts but rarely had opportunity.

Anyone know if there is any evidence for this theory?

[ComradeOm]

I remember reading somewhere that there was a standard operating procedure across peasant revolts: burn the castle; burn the tax and/or property records; kill every man, woman and child noble you can catch because this lowers the chance that someone will inherit. The source was arguing that this indicated a tradition of revolt that continued across generations and locations. That peasants often talked about revolts but rarely had opportunity.

Anyone know if there is any evidence for this theory?Peasant jacqueries, like all revolts, of course contributed to an accumulation of local traditions. Where possible revolters called upon past risings and their symbols. There was however certainly no prescribed or pan-European SOP for these revolts. Any similarities, between revolts that were geographically separated, can be largely attributed to common class antagonisms or circumstances


...kill every man, woman and child noble you can catch because this lowers the chance that someone will inheritExcept that feudal law didn't work that way. Someone always inherited

[Jolly Red Giant]

They missed all the Irish ones -

The Caravat uprising from 1808-1816 (cottiers and rural labourers mainly targetting tenant farmers who formed their own competing organisation, the Shanavests, to defend against attacks)

The Rockite Rebellion from 1820-1824 - a fullscale uprising involving tens of thousands of cottiers and rural labourers that covered almost half the country.

The Terry Alt uprising of 1831 which was mainly confined to Munster and South Connaught but again involved thousands of rural poor.

In each case most of the uprisings were directed at the Catholic Merchant class and the Catholic forestallers who had a monopoly over food and manipulated food prices and the Catholic tenant farmers who rented land from the landlords and then rented it on to the cottiers and labourers at upwards of four times the rate they paid. While some action was directed at the Protestant landlord class it was secondary to the attacks on the merchants and tenant farmers.

[howblackisyourflag]

They missed all the Irish ones -

The Caravat uprising from 1808-1816 (cottiers and rural labourers mainly targetting tenant farmers who formed their own competing organisation, the Shanavests, to defend against attacks)

The Rockite Rebellion from 1820-1824 - a fullscale uprising involving tens of thousands of cottiers and rural labourers that covered almost half the country.

The Terry Alt uprising of 1831 which was mainly confined to Munster and South Connaught but again involved thousands of rural poor.

In each case most of the uprisings were directed at the Catholic Merchant class and the Catholic forestallers who had a monopoly over food and manipulated food prices and the Catholic tenant farmers who rented land from the landlords and then rented it on to the cottiers and labourers at upwards of four times the rate they paid. While some action was directed at the Protestant landlord class it was secondary to the attacks on the merchants and tenant farmers.

Is there any literature on these?

[Jolly Red Giant]

Is there any literature on these?
On the Caravat/Shanavest conflict - very little outside of a passing reference in some articles. It's on my 'to-do' list.

On the Rockite Rebellion - James S. Donnelly, Jr. an academic working in Wisconsin University has produced a number of articles and recently a book entitled Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824. While Donnelly has been quite thorough I do disagree with his emphasis on the rebellion being, to a degree, sectarian in nature. Most of his research was conducted on the Cork Rockites, mine is on Limerick and my research does not square with this claim as I have found little evidence for a sectarian component at least not until after its suppression in 1824. violence flaired again in 1825 - but by this stage the main proponents of the violence appear to be the tenant farmers who did target Protestant churches etc.

This is a link to an article by Beresford Ellis - http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/features/rockite-rebellion/
However, in my experience, Beresford Ellis is a poor historian despite his reputation. His research is could be be described as limited and there are significant errors in this particular article.

The Terry Alt Uprising - there is very little - a recent chapter of a book has been dedicated to it that I have yet to read, but little else. It's another for my 'to-do' list.

[milk]

It misses out the Samlaut Rebellion in northwestern Cambodia in 1967. Very serious at the time, it at first saw more than four thousand peasants leave their villages for the forested areas of Battambang. An important event for the burgeoning Khmer Rouge insurgent movement, although Communist historiography distanced the Khmer Rouge from what they viewed as being a premature revolt, instead placing the creation of a "revolutionary army," and the launch of open armed rebellion from 1968 as being the starting point of the insurgency.

Still the only detailed study on the rebellion is Ben Kiernan's Monash University working paper The Samlaut Rebellion and its Aftermath, 1967-70: The Origins of Cambodia's Liberation Movement, which prefers to see the rebellion as having significant Khmer Rouge involvement and direction.