Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. List of Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Bristol: Prospects and Profiles 7
8. 2. Voices in the Crowd 37
9. 3. Authority, Class and Clientage in Bristol Politics 85
10. 4. Wreckers from Without: Weavers, Colliers, Arsonists and Sodomites, 1729–34 111
11. 5. Popular Jacobitism and the Politics of Provocation 133
12. 6. Anger and Reprisals: The Struggle against Turnpikes and their Projectors, 1727–53 163
13. 7. ‘It is better to stand like men than to starve in the land of plenty’: Food Riots and Market Regulation in Bristol 189
14. 8. Naval Impressment in Bristol, 1738–1815 217
15. 9. Bristol and the War of American Independence 241
16. 10. A Loyal City? The Diversity of Dissent in Bristol in the 1790s 279
17. 11. Hunt and Liberty: Popular Politics in Bristol, 1800–20 305
18. 12. ‘This is the blaze of Liberty!’ The burning of Bristol in 1831 325
19. Postscript 353
20. Bibliography 361
21. Index 381