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The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the Normans to the Nineties

Autor David Horspool
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2010
The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution, the English executed their king and instituted a radical revolutionary government. In 1215, more than 570 years before the United States ratified its Bill of Rights, England's barons forced King John to accept the Magna Carta. In 1926 over 1.5 million strikers brought the nation to its knees.

From the Peasants' Revolt to the suffragettes, from Oliver Cromwell to Arthur Scargill, this ground-breaking and hugely enjoyable book describes a rich and continuous tradition of resistance, rebellion and radicalism, of violent and charismatic individuals with axes to grind, and of social eruptions and political earthquakes that have shaped England's whole culture and character.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141025476
ISBN-10: 0141025476
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

David Horspool read History at Oxford, and is History Editor of theTimes Literary Supplement. He is the author ofWhy Alfred Burned the Cakes, and he writes for theTLS, theSunday Times,Guardian,Daily TelegraphandNew York Times.

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A superb losers' history of England [told] with narrative verve and delicious detail
An unfailingly lucid, immensely readable, and above-all clear-eyed account of an indomitable strand in our national story
An exciting, accessible story. Horspool uncovers the hearty, dangerous energy of British politics. We are a nation of rebels, whose history has been shaped by stirrers of every kind
Highly impressive. Could almost be a one-volume guide to English history.
Full of wit and scholarship