Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City

by Steve Poole and Nicholas Rogers

Bristol from Below captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century. It charts the lives of ordinary Bristolians in the making of their city and devotes particular attention to their relationship with the mercantile elites who dominated the city's governing institutions. While not ignoring the contribution of the middling sort to the cultural and political life of the city,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783272449
• ISBN13: 9781783272440
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 403 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"