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

Abstract

Contributors Preface 1. Markets, Market Culture and Popular Protest in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland - Adrian Randall, Andrew Charlesworth, Richard Sheldon and David Walsh 2. Popular Protest and the Persistence of Customary Corn Measures: Resistance to the Winchester Bushel in the English West - Richard Sheldon, Adrian Randall, Andrew Charlesworth, and David Walsh 3. The Jack-a-Lent Riots and Opposition to Turnpikes in the Bristol Region in 1749 - Andrew Charlesworth, Richard Sheldon, Adrian Randall, and David Walsh 4. The Cider Tax, Popular Symbolism and Opposition in Mid-Hanoverian England - David Walsh, Adrian Randall, Richard Sheldon, and Andrew Charlesworth 5. Scarcity and the Civic Tradition: Market Management in Bristol, 1709-1815 - Steve Poole 6. The Moral Economy of the English Middling Sort in the Eighteenth Century: the Case of Norwich in 1766 and 1767 - Simon Renton 7. Oxford Food Riots: a Community and its Markets - Wendy Thwaites 8. The Irish Famine of 1709-1801: Market Culture, Moral Economies and Social Protest - Roger Wells Index