E. P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 960
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141934891
• Artikelnr.: 39187823

Autorenporträt

E. P. Thompson was born in 1924 and read history at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, graduating in 1946. An academic, writer and acclaimed historian, his first major work was a biography of William Morris. The Making of the English Working Class was instantly recognized as a classic on its publication in 1963 and secured his position as one of the leading social historians of his time. Thompson was also a leading figure in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He died in 1993.

Rezensionen

Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst Eric Hobsbawm Independent