Poole / Rogers Bristol from Below

Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78744-067-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 403 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poole, Steve

Rogers, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rogers Nicholas:
NICHOLAS ROGERS is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in History at York University, Toronto and author of Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber (Boydell, 2020) and (with Steve Poole) of Bristol from Below; Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City (Boydell, 2017).