[PDF] Markets Market Culture And Popular Protest In Eighteenth Century Britain And Ireland eBook

Author : Adrian Randall
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780853237006

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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 insight into the social, political and economic relationships of eighteenth-century Britain. Some readers will see in these chapters evidence of the heterogeneity of these relations, but others will recognize that, for all the apparent differences, on basic issues of provisioning there was a remarkable uniformity. Following an introductory chapter, contributions focus on protest in relation to customary corn measures, opposition to turnpikes, resistance to the Cider Tax, scarcity and market management in Bristol, the moral economy of "the English middling sort", Oxford food riots and the Irish famine 1799–1801.

Author : Adrian Randall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0199259909

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Riotous Assemblies examines eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England through the lens of popular disorder. Adrian Randall shows how conflicts and tensions in 'high' politics contributed to a potent national sense of freedom and right, giving ordinary people the confidence to respond vigorously to any threat to their customary liberties. He demonstrates how the rulers of eighteenth-century England were forced to manage disorder through a mixture of judicious theatre and periodic repression, and how economic and social transformation led to fundamental changes in the nature of popular protest.

Author : Timothy D. Watt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1783273127

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The book highlights the scale of disorder and the many difficulties faced by the authorities.

Author : William Tullett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0192582445

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In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between the senses and society.

Author : Jeremy Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0415378826

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"Brings together in a single volume chonological, statistical, tabular and bibliographical information covering all the major aspects of eighteenth-century British history from the 'Glorious' Revolution of 1688-89 to the death of George III - the 'long' eighteenth century"--Back cover.

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1317315316

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Presents a study of the political culture of Scotland in the 1790s. This book compares the emergence of 'the people' as a political force, with popular political movements in England and Ireland. It analyses Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining Loyalist as well as Radical opinions and organisations.

Author : Shani D'Cruze
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781902806730

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Based on extensive primary-source research, this historical account considers the changing identity of 18th-century Colchester from the perspective of its "middling sort"--a section of society often attached to cultures of politeness and to the practices of consumption and production that helped shape economic change. Painstakingly reconstructing 18th-century social networks along lines of family, kinship, gender, spatiality, religion, and politics, this study examines the relationships between individual and family biographies while reflecting on provincial urban society and culture. The guide explores how Colchester capitalized on growth in agriculturally based industries--such as brewing, milling, and malting--and its role as an east-coast port and its participating in the urban renaissance and commodification of polite culture.

Author : Enda Delaney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1134757980

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Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no effort to assert "the animal’s right to existence," passively accepting their fate. But the poor did resist. In word and deed, they defied landlords, merchants and agents of the state: they rioted for food, opposed rent and rate collection, challenged the decisions of those controlling relief works, and scorned clergymen who attributed their suffering to the Almighty. The essays collected here examine the full range of resistance in the Great Famine, and illuminate how the crisis itself transformed popular politics. Contributors include distinguished scholars of modern Ireland and emerging historians and critics. This book is essential reading for students of modern Ireland, and the global history of collective action.

Author : Aashish Velkar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107023335

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An economic and social history of measurements in nineteenth-century British markets, showing how social conventions shaped local practices and economic institutions. This book uncovers how metrology alone failed to make 'measurements' reliable, and discusses the importance of localised practices based on political and social values in shaping trust in measurements.

Author : D. Lemmings
Publisher : Springer
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230354408

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Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people.