COMING 28 JULY 2012

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Since 2000, London has seen unprecedented levels of unrest. Its streets have become battlegrounds for a host of new demands and new ideological standpoints; its occupants, protesters and authorities alike, have had to invent new tactics to cope with the pressure of street politics and advances in social media. Riot City, the follow up to the bestselling Violent London, deals in detail with the story behind the capital's unrest from the perspective of protesters, police and government. Using a range of sources, from security briefings to reportage, Riot City provides a full historical analysis of the student protests to the August riots.

Riot City carefully analyses the modern protest movement and political disorder from all sides including information from protesters, police, parliament and security services to create a new interpretation of public disturbance and provide an argument that challenges current thinking. The book also reveals disturbing evidence of how security forces failed to act upon their own predictions of the intensified violence of 2011.

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"Bloom is a card-carrying public intellectual, a regular media commentator and the prolific author and editor of books on pulp fiction, Poe and Freud, graphic novels, politics and literature, best-sellers, American Gothic, British horror, violence and the occult. In short, he has street cred" Times Higher Education Magazine

Recently described by The Times as "a polymath", CLIVE BLOOM is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, best-selling author and publisher. When Professor Bloom isn't writing and researching he divides his time between New York University and The University of Notre Dame.

In 2011 Clive was the historical consultant to the BBC and a number of national and international newspapers on the G20 and the summer riots in Britain. He is an occasional feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, regularly appearing on television and radio and he is quoted in the Columbia Book of World Quotations.

His numerous books include Restless Revolutionaries, Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts, Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900, Terror Within: The Dream of a British Republic, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory; and Gothic Horror, all of which have enjoyed international recognition.   

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