Markets, Market Culture and Popular Protest in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

by Andrew Charlesworth

Book Overview

This volume is concerned with markets, market culture and popular protest in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. The chapters focus upon both urban and rural communities: towns and cities, villages and corporations, colliers and tradesmen all feature in these studies since the market was ubiquitous and universal. How it was managed, however, varied from place to place and from time to time and the process of management provides us with a major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085323700X
• ISBN13: 9780853237006
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"