Violent London (Pocket)
avClive Bloom
ISBN: 9780230275591 - UTGIVEN: 2010-09-08Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since, the capital's streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 2,000 years of political protest, this is a riveting [...]
Victoria's Madmen (Inbunden)
avClive Bloom
ISBN: 9780230313828 - UTGIVEN: 2013-08-02Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society.[...]
Bestsellers (Häftad)
avClive Bloom
ISBN: 9780230536890 - UTGIVEN: 200809What fiction have we been reading in the last hundred years? Who are the most popular authors and what are the most popular books and the most important genres? Such straightforward questions raise intriguing literary, cultural, social and intellectual responses which often require much detective wo[...]
Riot City (Pocket)
avClive Bloom
ISBN: 9781137029355 - UTGIVEN: 2012-07-26This follow up to Violent London deals in detail with the story behind the 2010 and 2011 riots both from the perspective of the protesters and rioters and from the point of view of the police and government. It uses reportage, parliamentary, police and security briefings as well as the voices and th[...]
Gothic Histories: The Taste for Terror, 1764 to the Present (Pocket)
avClive Bloom
ISBN: 9781847060518 - UTGIVEN: 2010-06-06
