The English Rebel - Horspool, David
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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…mehr

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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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David Horspool read History at Oxford, and is History Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Why Alfred Burned the Cakes, and he writes for the TLS, the Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and New York Times.