A People's History of London

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12.99
book_author_name: 
John Rees
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Verso Books
published_date: 
01/05/2012
isbn: 
9781844678556
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Books > History > Regional & national history > Britain & Ireland
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John Rees|Paperback|Verso Books|01/05/2012
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9781844678556
Book Description: 
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, Marx and Engels, Garibaldi and Gandhi; and the countless pubs, theaters, coffee-houses and meeting-places in which radical ideas have been nurtured and revolutions planned.

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