Riots and RebelsThe only power otherwise powerless people possess lies in their numbers. Riots and Rebels is an examination of how they have exercised that power over the centuries and how governments have reacted to it. In 1381, a large army of people marched through the south east of England to London, demanding an end to unfair taxation and threatening the rule of the boy king, Richard II. During the eighteenth century, food riots, riots in protest at land