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Peterloo: The Massacre and its Background Kindle Edition

by Donald Read (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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"Mr. Read has written a history of Peterloo that is fuller and clearer than any other"— Economic History Review



When government-backed cavalry brutally charged into a crowd of 60,000 – 80,000 unarmed civilians who were demanding parliamentary reform, the Peterloo Massacre became one of the most famous events of the 19th century.

Protesting against the famine and chronic unemployment that had been rife in Northern England since the Napoleonic War, why the crowd was there is fundamentally economic. How they came to be there is a question of politics.

Donald Read delves into the socioeconomic background of Peterloo, examining the causes of the unrest and the working-class Radical Reformers at the heart of it. The events leading up to the massacre, as well as the aftermath and the lasting impact, are investigated in vivid detail.

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‘Mr. Read has made an important contribution to the study of Peterloo in general English history, to some extent taking it out of the context of the history of the labour movement and relating it to the whole social milieu of England’s “most revolutionary” city’— Asa Briggs, The Listener

‘Only patient and dispassionate research into local history could produce this background with all its long-standing animosities, its cross-currents of conflicting interests, and its ultimately tragic tensions. This has now been achieved by Mr Donald Read, whose admirable study sets before us the economic, social and religious situation of the Manchester area in and around the year 1819 like a finely drawn map of a field of magnetic force’— History Today

‘With patience and admirable lucidity the author has succeeded in disentangling the main threads leading through this bizarre affair, and with still greater honesty he resists the obvious temptation to overplay its subsequent importance’— The Times Educational Supplement

Donald Read (1930 – 1 October 2018) was a British historian and emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent, who was appointed to write the authorised history of Reuters. Read died in 2018, aged 88.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07XB1QD4R
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lume Books (September 3, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 3, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4825 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 325 pages
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Ah, lads. I knew nothing about the Peterloo massacre and it's background, like NOTHING. I tell you this and I tell you no lie, after reading this book I knew a little bit more. Honest.
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