Viking, 2009. Hardback with Dust Wrapper. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. 453pp including notes, bibliography and comprehensive index. coloured endpapers. Between pages 232 and 233 are eight pages of black-and-white photography and illustrations. Red coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Size: 8vo - over 7พ" - 9พ" tall. [9] X - XXIII, [2], 2-453. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. First Edition. list of illustrations, acknowledgements, introduction by author, further reading and notes and index. Slate gray coloured endpapers. A history of English rebellion, from the Magna Carta, and the Peasants Revolt, through the execution of Charles I to the General Strike of 1926, and the Poll Tax revolts of the 90's. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. 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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