From the streets of Alexandria in 38 AD to the firelit chaos of the 1780 Gordon Riots, from Soweto to Los Angeles, Great Riots of History goes inside the moments when crowds rose up and empires trembled. These chapters are loud, messy, and violent — but each one reveals something underneath: injustice ignored, power abused, people pushed past their limit.

Drawing on eyewitness accounts, ancient chronicles, and modern scholarship, this book uncovers not just what happened, but why — and what these uprisings still have to teach us. Riots aren't just chaos. They're history's warning shots.