The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the Normans to the Nineties
Author(s):
Horspool, David
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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| Size: | 6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | Yes |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | Very Good |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
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| Impression: | 1st Impression |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Viking |
| Publication Year: | 2009 |
| SKU: | 017357 |
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| Categories: | History - British |
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History - British
458pp plus 8pp plate illustrations. Red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. 8vo. Gift inscription on front free endpaper and hint of creaminess to pages. In its gently edge bumped dust jacket. Horspool exposes the British as a nation of rebels, exploding popular myths of national identity, he traces the history of rebellion and resistance in England - from Magna Carta to the Interregnum, from the Peasants Revolt to Peterloo, from Robert Catesby to Arthur Scargill, Horspool examines those moments in history upon which the fate of the nation turned.
Keywords:
Rebellion
Revolt
Resistance
Rebels
Nore Mutiny
Peterloo
Perkin Warbeck
Miners' Strike
Essex Rebellion
Glorious Revolution
Seaman's Strike
John Wilkes
Chartists
Chartism
General Strike
Poll Tax
Cable Street
