Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Bristol from BelowLaw, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City, pp. vPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017