| Description |
1 online resource (387 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history, 1476-9107 ; volume 28 |
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Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; v. 28.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Bristol (England) -- History
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Bristol (England) -- Politics and government -- History -- 18th century
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| Subject |
England -- Bristol
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rogers, Nicholas, author.
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| ISBN |
9781787440678 |
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1787440672 |
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