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The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt

Juliet Barker

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674368149

Publication Date: 11/24/2014

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528 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

28 color illustrations, 3 maps

Belknap Press

Not for sale in the UK, Commonwealth (except Canada), Europe, and the Indian Subcontinent

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Preface
A Note to the Text
1. The end of an era
2. The state of the nation
3. Landlords and tenants
4. Urban society
5. Wars and taxes
6. Resistance
7. Essex and Kent arise
8. To London
9. Mile End
10. Smithfield
11. St Albans and Bury St Edmunds
12. Ely, Huntingdon and Cambridge
13. Norfolk
14. North and south
15. Suppression
16. The aftermath
17. The legacy
Appendix 1. Wat Tyler
Appendix 2. Jack Straw
Appendix 3. John Balle
Appendix 4. John Balle’s letters
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Picture Credits

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