Carolyn Steedman

An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

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Produktbeschreibung

Unique and fascinating account of English working-class life at the turn of the nineteenth century by celebrated historian Carolyn Steedman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9781107670297
• ISBN-10: 1107670292
• Artikelnr.: 39510675

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Steedman is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Her recent publications include Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age (2007) and Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: what are they like?
1. An introduction, shewing what kind of history this is, what it is like, and what it is not like
2. Books do furnish a mind
3. Family and friends
4. Fears as loyons: drinking and fighting
5. Sex and the single man
6. Talking law
7. Earthly powers
8. Getting and spending
9. Knitting and frames
10. The knocking at the gate: General Ludd
11. Some conclusions about writing everyday.