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The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution by Frank McLynn (Hardcover, 2012)

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* Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066; nor, in nearly 1,000 years, has it known a true revolution - one that brings radical, systemic and enduring change. The contrast with her European neighbours - with France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Russia - is dramatic. All have been convulsed by external warfare, revolution and civil war - all have experienced fundamental change to their ruling elites or their social and economic structures. *In The Road Not Taken Frank McLynn investigates the seven occasions when England came closest to revolution- the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the Jack Cade rising of 1450, the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, the English Civil War of the 1640s, the Jacobite Rising of 1745-6, the Chartist Movement of 1838-50 and the General Strike of 1926. *Mixes narrative and analysis, vividly recreating each episode and providing compelling explanations of why social turbulence stopped short of revolution. *McLynn takes issue with those who argue that great events do not have great causes - that they happen not because of some titanic clash of systems - the bourgeoisie versus the landed aristocracy or the oligarchy versus the gentry - but