Steve Poole, Nicholas Rogers

Bristol from Below

Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 403
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9781783272440
• ISBN-10: 1783272449
• Artikelnr.: 47831791

Autorenporträt

Steve Poole, Nicholas Rogers

Inhaltsangabe

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