AuthorMcLynn, Frank
TitleThe road not taken : how Britain narrowly missed a revolution, 1381-1926 / Frank McLynn
Imprint London : Vintage Books, 2013
Descript xiv, 610 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm

CONTENT

The origins of the revolt of 1381 -- Failure and consequences of the Peasants' Revolt -- Jack Cade -- The Pilgrimage of Grace -- Treachery and debacle -- Cromwell and the Levellers -- England's revolution manqué? -- The Jacobite Rising of 1745 -- Evolutionary Jacobitism -- The advent of the Chartists -- Chartism's decline and fall -- The General Strike : prelude -- The General Strike and its enemies -- Towards the abyss -- Revolution's last chance


SUBJECT

  1. Great Britain -- History
  2. Great Britain -- Social conditions

LOCATIONCALL#STATUS
Arts LibraryDA30 M166R 2013 CHECK SHELVES