THE GORDON RIOTS: POLITICS, CULTURE AND INSURRECTION IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.THE GORDON RIOTS: POLITICS, CULTURE AND INSURRECTION IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN

Octavo. Small corner crease to bottom of front panel. 273 pp. including Index. For almost a week, large parts of central London were ablaze, prisons were destroyed and the bank of England attacked. Hundreds of rioters were shot dead by troops and for many observers it seemed that England was on the verge of a revolution.The essays include new archival work on the religious,political and international contexts of the [June 1780] riots, which have been called "the most devastating outbreak of urban violence in British history.