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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 085323700X ISBN 13: 9780853237006

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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 recognise 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.

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About the Authors

Adrian Randall is Emeritus Professor of English Social History at the University of Birmingham.

Andrew Charlesworth is Lecturer in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 085323700X
• ISBN 13: 9780853237006
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Randall Adrian, Charlesworth Andrew