Bristol from Below - Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City

Captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century.

List of contents

Introduction
Bristol: Prospects and Profiles
Voices in the Crowd
Authority, Class and Clientage in Bristol Politics
Wreckers from Without: Weavers, Colliers, Arsonists and Sodomites, 1729-34
Popular Jacobitism and the Politics of Provocation
Anger and Reprisals: the Struggle against Turnpikes and their Projectors, 1727-53
'It is better to stand like men than to starve in the land of plenty': Food Riots and Market Regulation in Bristol
Naval Impressment in Bristol, 1739-1815
Bristol and the War of American Independence
A Loyal City? The Diversity of Dissent in Bristol in the 1790s
Hunt and Liberty: Popular Politics in Bristol, 1800-20
'This is the blaze of Liberty!' The Burning of Bristol in 1831
Postscript
Bibliography

About the author

Steve Poole, Nicholas Rogers

Summary

Captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Nicholas C. Rogers, Steve Poole, Nicholas Rogers, Professor Nicholas (Royalty Account) Rogers
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781783272440
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-244-0
• No. of pages: 403
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 739 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur; Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918