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and I'll make that clear in a while.
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All three fit together, I think, very nicely.
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One of the underlying themes, which you'll see,
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is that popular protest and
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collective violence attached to popular protest is not random.
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It can be spontaneous, but it's not illogical.
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There's a logic to popular protest right through the ages
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in the early-modern period as well as in the nineteenth century,
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and ordinary people put forth their demands by protesting and,
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in doing so, hope to affect change,
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to appeal to authorities who hopefully will do the right thing,
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often imagining a world in the past where a sense of justice prevailed.