The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents
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The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents

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The last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism. Bombings and assassinations shook the great cities of Europe and America, threatening social order. Fiendish networks of anarchist conspiritors were blamed and the public whipped into a frenzy of anxiety. The reality was rather different. These dramatic events were only the most visible part of a longer, clandestine struggle waged between the forces of revolution and reaction, in which little was as it seemed. Alex Butterworth interweaves group biography, cultural history and meticulous detective work to create a revelatory account of the age. Both intimate and panoramic, it is a story with uncanny resonances for today.

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Weight 0.383 kg
Dimensions 3.3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

560
Publisher

Year Published

2011-3-3
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099551926
About The Author

Born in 1969, Alex Butterworth is an historian, writer and dramatist whose first book Pompeii: The Living City won the Longmans-History Today New Generation Book of the Year. He lives in Oxford.

Exhilarating…almost any paragraph packs more action than an entire Dan Brown novel
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Butterworth has created an impressive work which will captivate those unfamiliar with anarchist history and teach even specialists much that they did not know before

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