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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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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: People's History of London
• Author: John Rees
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781844678556
• ISBN: 1844678555
• ID: 04465214
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Weight: 492 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 232 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. June 2012

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