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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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
The Boydell Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ;
v. 28. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Bristol : prospects and profiles
- 2. Voices in the crowd
- 3. Authority, class and clientage in Bristol politics
- 4. Wreckers from without : weavers, colliers, arsonists and sodomites, 1729-34
- 5. Popular Jacobitism and the politics of provocation
- 6. Anger and reprisals : the struggle against Turnpikes and their projectors, 1727-53
- 7. 'It is better to stand like men than to starve in the land of plenty' : food riots and market regulation in Bristol
- 8. Naval impressment in Bristol, 1738-1815
- 9. Bristol and the War of American Independence
- 10. A loyal city? The diversity of dissent in Bristol in the 1790s
- 11. Hunt and liberty : popular politics in Bristol, 1800-20
- 12. 'This is the blaze of Liberty!' The burning of Bristol in 1831
- Postscript.