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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Pubs for the People: The Fight for the Pint and the Nation

Pubs for the People: The Fight for the Pint and the Nation

Valluvan, Sivamohan
Singh, Amit

Hardcover

General SociologyGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1526194546
ISBN13: 9781526194541
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A heartfelt case for why the English pub still matters and how we can save it.

In Pubs for the people, Amit Singh and Sivamohan Valluvan offer a daring defence of the humble public house, waging battle against those who see the pub only as a poignant symbol of a bygone England.

Making a journey into the nation's living room, they blend tales of Singh's father - the founder of London's first 'Desi pub' - with a lively travelogue that carries them from a hipster nightmare in Shoreditch to an izakaya-inspired Eccles pub run by migrants from Hong Kong. Along the way, they take on private equity, yuppie gentrifiers and culture-war blowhards who use the pub as a prop for their rage-baiting patriotism.

Life today can seem lonelier, angrier and poorer than it did before. But as Singh and Valluvan show, the pub offers the inviting prospect of a more equal, sociable and comfortably multiracial England.

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