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About the Author
NICHOLAS ROGERS is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in History at York University, Toronto and author of Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber (Boydell, 2020) and (with Steve Poole) of Bristol from Below; Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City (Boydell, 2017).
Reviews
[This] fine study of Bristol is a valuable and interesting contribution to renewed debates about how urban inhabitants reacted to the major social, economic and political changes of this era....[It] is an essential addition to our understanding of eighteenth-century popular politics, protest and local government. * HISTORY *
Bristol from Below is, to conclude, one of the finest works of regional history from below that has been published in recent years: a triumph of the form. Poole and Rodgers should be congratulated on their achievement. * HISTOIRE SOCIALE / SOCIAL HISTORY *
Places the history of Georgian Bristol on a new and most welcome footing. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
A vigorous account of... true stories, some darkly comic, some tragic, nearly all highly dramatic. * BRISTOL & GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY *
A compelling and vivid portrait of a bustling, enterprising and often lawless and violent city. There is nothing boring about 18th century Bristol and the authors know it. * BRISTOL TIMES *
[An] important and richly documented volume. . . . Bristol from Below undoubtedly adds enormously to our understanding of popular politics in a major urban center during the Georgian era. -- Peter Borsay * Journal of British Studies *
Book Information
ISBN 9781783272440
Author Steve Poole
Format Hardback
Page Count 403
Imprint The Boydell Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g