People's History of London

Name: People's History of London
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ISBN: 9781844678556

ISBN-10: 1844678555

ISBN-13: 9781844678556

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lindsey German, John Rees

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Hub of empire, world port and seat of government, London has a political history that is nevertheless entwined with the lives of its people, a multitude often dismissed throughout the centuries as a mob. This gripping new counter-history reveals how London’s poor and its immigrant population have shaped its history and identity over the ages: from apprentices closing the city gates on Charles I in the 1640s to modern fights against fascism and racism in Cable Street and Notting Hill. A People’s History of London takes us into an unofficial, half-hidden and often undocumented world, a city rarely glimpsed: of pamphleteers, agitators, exiles, demonstrations and riots; the city of Wat Tyler,…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.99" wide x 9.18" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.078



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Origins



Lords, Lollards, Heretics and Peasants in Revolt



'The Head and Fountain of Rebellion'



Old Corruption and the Mob That Can Read



Reformers and Revolutionaries



Union City



Things Fall Apart



The Strike and the Slump



London's Burning



Migrant City



Welcome to the Modern World



Neoliberal London


Bibliography


Index