Author: Richard CobdenPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Financial reform, mr. Cobden's defence of his national budget, letter, by 'One who has whistled at the plough'.
Author: Richard CobdenThe Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Aruna KrishnamurthyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351880330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In Britain, the period that stretches from the middle of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century marks the emergence of the working classes, alongside and in response to the development of the middle-class public sphere. This collection contributes to that scholarship by exploring the figure of the "working-class intellectual," who both assimilates the anti-authoritarian lexicon of the middle classes to create a new political and cultural identity, and revolutionizes it with the subversive energy of class hostility. Through considering a broad range of writings across key moments of working-class self-expression, the essays reevaluate a host of familiar writers such as Robert Burns, John Thelwall, Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, Ann Yearsley, and even Shakespeare, in terms of their role within a working-class constituency. The collection also breaks fresh ground in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship by shedding light on a number of unfamiliar and underrepresented figures, such as Alexander Somerville, Michael Faraday, and the singer Ned Corvan.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
Author: Frederick EngelsPublisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3730964852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Condition of the Working Class in England is one of the best-known works of Friedrich Engels. Originally written in German as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, it is a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels' first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution, and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. Engels argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off. He shows, for example, that in large industrial cities mortality from disease, as well as death-rates for workers were higher than in the countryside. In cities like Manchester and Liverpool mortality from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough was four times as high as in the surrounding countryside, and mortality from convulsions was ten times as high as in the countryside. The overall death-rate in Manchester and Liverpool was significantly higher than the national average (one in 32.72 and one in 31.90 and even one in 29.90, compared with one in 45 or one in 46). An interesting example shows the increase in the overall death-rates in the industrial town of Carlisle where before the introduction of mills (1779–1787), 4,408 out of 10,000 children died before reaching the age of five, and after their introduction the figure rose to 4,738. Before the introduction of mills, 1,006 out of 10,000 adults died before reaching 39 years old, and after their introduction the death rate rose to 1,261 out of 10,000.
Friedrich List (1789-1846)
Author: Eugen WendlerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642545548
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Friedrich List (1789-1846) was a prophet of social market economy, national economy and the infant-industry theory. In this comprehensive biography the international influence and reception of List’s theories is presented together with his extraordinary vita. List was a notable early advocate of economic integration of the many separate states of 19th century Germany. His basic theory is that of productive resources and the need to protect infant industries until they have matured enough to stand alone. He is recognized as a visionary economist with social responsibility and as an influential railway pioneer. He was a liberal and a democrat who promoted an extended representative democracy, including respect for human rights and civil liberties, to accompany industrial development. His highly influential main work “The National System of Political Economy” has been translated into many languages. Eugen Wendler, the renowned author and List expert, not only builds upon his many years of research, but also discusses several new sources. This richly illustrated book is as informative as it is well written.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England: 1857-1874
Author: Charles Larcom GravesPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
Author: George Otto TrevelyanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The History of Huddersfield and Its Vicinity
Author: D. F. E. SykesPublisher:
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Category : Huddersfield (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper
Author: Edward AlexanderPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814201881
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
History of Union County
Author: Lulu LeonardPublisher:
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Category : Anna (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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