Eighteenth-century British contention was parochial, particular, and bifurcated

Evidence

On the whole, these constitute parochial, particular, and bifurcated forms of action: parochial in concentrating on local targets, and basing themselves on local groupings rather than local segments of regional and national groupings; particular in having highly differentiated forms of action for different groups, situations, and localities; and bifurcated in dividing between direct action with respect to nearby objects of claims and action mediated by dignitaries and powerful people with respect to distant objects of claims. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 327

Categorization

• DEFINE: Trio of defining features for the old repertoire; supplies precise vocabulary for characterizing pre-modern contention.
• XREF: connects to: Complete enumeration of periodical-reported events can substitute for representative sampling — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 312