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