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- Devilish Kind of Courage : Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Si
- ISBN
- 9781789148442
- Subject Area
- History
- Publication Name
- Devilish Kind of Courage : Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, The Limited
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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A thrilling account of the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street--when a young Winston Churchill allowed two immigrant revolutionaries to burn to death in London's East End. On January 3, 1911, police discovered Latvian revolutionaries on the lam in London's East End. A six-hour gunfight ensued until fire consumed the building where the radicals had taken refuge. When a not-yet-prime-minister Winston Churchill arrived at the scene, he ordered officials to let the fire run its course. At least two people burned to death in the blaze, but the Latvian ringleader, Peter the Painter, remained at large. Known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the event was a nationwide sensation and ignited fierce debates about immigration, extremism, and law enforcement. This book unravels the full story of the siege, the Latvian expatriates, and London's vibrant anarchist movement in the early twentieth century.
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Publisher
Reaktion Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
1789148448
ISBN-13
9781789148442
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4062941841
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Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Devilish Kind of Courage : Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street
Publication Year
2024
Subject
Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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Whitehead has written a vivid and authoritative account of a stand-out event in the always turbulent history of London's East End. A Devilish Kind of Courage is an accomplished piece of historical research and a story wonderfully well told - combing police archives, trial records, Yiddish language anarchist papers and even the memoirs of a notorious East End criminal. It places the account of gun-toting desperadoes, émigrés from the Tsarist Russian Empire against the background of an intense debate about the large numbers of near destitute immigrants from Eastern Europe - a controversy that still resonates to this day. The book also brings to the fore the unsettling story of three women caught up in the Siege of Sidney Street and subsequent trial., A fascinating, forgotten story told in rich, evocative detail. A Devilish Kind of Courage provides a vivid portrayal of the East End of London in the early years of the twentieth century, and of the tumultuous rise and fall of the anarchist movement in Britain., A compelling history of the Siege of Sidney Street that deftly examines the event's international dimensions and vividly brings to life the underground communities it outlawed. Andrew Whitehead's argument that liberalism ultimately prevailed over media-fuelled public anxiety is a judicious and salutary reminder of the dangers of knee-jerk government legislation.
Table of Content
Introduction 1 The Tottenham Outrage 2 The 'Alien Invasion' 3 The Worker's Friend 4 Comrades and Lovers 5 Houndsditch 6 100 Sidney Street 7 'A Devilish Kind of Courage' 8 'The Cossacks of Bourgeois Journalism' 9 Acquitted 10 Nina, Luba, Rosa 11 Who Was Peter the Painter? 12 The Anarchist Aftermath 13 Legacy Timeline Walk: From Tottenham Police Station to the Marshes Walk: From Houndsditch to Sidney Street References Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index
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