English Rebels And Revolutionaries
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Author | : Stephen Basdeo |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2022-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526785919 |
Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely a century has gone by without England being witness to a major uprising against the government of the day, often resulting in a fundamental change to the constitution. This book is a collection of biographies, written by experts in their field, of the lives and deeds of famous English freedom fighters, rebels, and democrats who have had a major impact on history. Featured chapters include the history of Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, when an army of 50,000 people marched to London in 1381 to demand an end to serfdom and the hated poll tax. Alongside Wat Tyler in this pantheon of English revolutionaries is Jack Cade who in 1450 led an angry mob to London to protest against government corruption. There are three chapters on various aspects of the English Civil War, during which the English executed their king. Other rebel heroes featured include Thomas Paine, the great intellectual of the American and French Revolutions; Mary Wollstonecraft, author of The Rights of Woman; Henry Hunt, who, as well as the Chartists after him, campaigned for universal suffrage; William Morris, the visionary designer and socialist thinker; and finally the Suffragettes and Suffragists who fought for women’s voting rights.
Author | : Stephen Basdeo |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2022-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526785935 |
Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely a century has gone by without England being witness to a major uprising against the government of the day, often resulting in a fundamental change to the constitution. This book is a collection of biographies, written by experts in their field, of the lives and deeds of famous English freedom fighters, rebels, and democrats who have had a major impact on history. Featured chapters include the history of Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, when an army of 50,000 people marched to London in 1381 to demand an end to serfdom and the hated poll tax. Alongside Wat Tyler in this pantheon of English revolutionaries is Jack Cade who in 1450 led an angry mob to London to protest against government corruption. There are three chapters on various aspects of the English Civil War, during which the English executed their king. Other rebel heroes featured include Thomas Paine, the great intellectual of the American and French Revolutions; Mary Wollstonecraft, author of The Rights of Woman; Henry Hunt, who, as well as the Chartists after him, campaigned for universal suffrage; William Morris, the visionary designer and socialist thinker; and finally the Suffragettes and Suffragists who fought for women’s voting rights.
Author | : Michael Pearson |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306809834 |
A re-creation of the American Revolution from the British point of view --and a dramatically different picture of the birth of our nation.
Author | : Edward Vallance |
Publisher | : Little Brown GBR |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
* Rousing, brilliant, hugely readable and fiercely intelligent, A Radical History of Britain is a panoramic, vividly detailed survey, the invaluable study of a millennium of one nation's free-thinking.
Author | : Albert Camus |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-09-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0307827836 |
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.
Author | : Charles Poulsen |
Publisher | : Journeyman Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : Pascale Baker |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783163453 |
This volume delivers a comprehensive study of banditry in Latin America and of its cultural representation. In its scope across the continent, looking closely at nations where bandit culture has manifested itself forcefully ― Mexico (the subject of the case study), the Hispanic south-west of the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba ― it imagines a ‘Golden Age’ of banditry in Latin America from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1940s when so-called ‘social bandits’, an idea first proposed by Eric Hobsbawm and further developed here, flourished. In its content, this work offers the most detailed and wide-ranging study of its kind currently available.
Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9781393028956 |
Author | : Michael Pearson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : David Horspool |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 607 |
Release | : 2009-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0670918261 |
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.