Buchanan SharpBuchanan Sharp is Emeritus Professor of British and European History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the social history of early modern England and, in particular, popular protest. He is the author of In Contempt f all Authority: Rural Artisans and Riot in the West of England (1980) and co-editor of Law and Authority in Early Modern England: Essays Presented to Thomas Garden Barnes (2007). Read More Read Less