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There is plenty of ground for him to cover, which accounts for this book's length – 577 pages, including appendices (very good), notes and index. This isn't just a history of riots and revolts: because each disturbance has to be placed in context, this is a political history which is made all the more interesting because it concentrates on the flashpoints, and the events which caused them. Both the TLS and JG Ballard used the word "exhilarating" to describe it. And there is something about the British that likes to let off steam like this from time to time (didn't Byron make this very point in Don Juan?). As he quotes Daniel Defoe, writing in 1710: "Passive obedience, Non-resistance, and the Divine right of hereditary succession are inconsistent with the rights of the British nation", something of which it would seem our rulers are still uncomfortably aware.
Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since, the capital's streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 2,000 years of political protest, this is a riveting alternative history of past and present conflict. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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