Riot! - Civil Insurrection From Peterloo to the Present Day

Informationen zum Autor Ian Hernon is a journalist and Westminster lobby correspondent. He is the author of Assassin!: 200 Years of British Political Murder (Pluto, 2007) and Riot!: Civil Insurrection From Peterloo to the Present Day (Pluto, 2006). He reports for the Sunday Times and Daily Express , Glasgow Evening Times , and many other newspapers. Ian's previous books on 19th Century British history include Britain's Forgotten Wars (Sutton, 2003). Klappentext Covers almost 200 years of civil disturbance on mainland Britain! and gives a voice to some of the remarkable people involved. This work shows that resistance played a part! not always beneficially! in the creation of proper parliamentary democracy! the welfare state! the trade union movement! and the rights of immigrants and civil liberties. Zusammenfassung Lively account of how people power has shaped British history -- from Peterloo to the Poll tax and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - by Paul Routledge Preface Introduction 1 Luddites and Blanketeers 2 The Road to Peterloo 3 The Massacre 4 The Reckoning 5 Captain Swing and the Rural War 6 The Reform Riots and the Battle of Bristol 7 The Merthyr Rising 8 The Chartists and the Newport Insurrection 9 The Chartists and the Plug Plot Riots 10 Cunninghame Graham and Bloody Sunday 11 The Featherstone Riot 12 The Suffragettes and Black Friday 13 Churchill and the Troops 14 The Police Strike 15 Mosley and the Battle of Cable Street 16 The Notting Hill Riots 17 From Student Protest to Blair Peach 18 Brixton! Toxteth and Broadwater Farm 19 The Battle of Orgreave 20 The Poll Tax Riot 21 The Return of Race Riots 22 Stop the War and G8 Conclusions Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Ian Hernon, Hernon Ian
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2006
• EAN: 9780745325385
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2538-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, European History, Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Demonstrations & protest movements, Revolutionary groups and movements, Political activism / Political engagement, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions