Author: Journeymen Bookbinders (LONDON)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Reply to a Letter from the Committee of the Southwark Auxiliary Bible-Society to the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, embodying the “Report of a Sub-Committee appointed by them,” ... to investigate certain statements respecting the Binder for the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Female Workers in her employ. (Signed on behalf of the Journeymen Bookbinders, T. J. Dunning, Sec.).
Author: Journeymen Bookbinders (LONDON)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Reply to a Letter from the Committee of the Southwark Auxiliary Bible Society, to the Committee of the British & Foreign Bible Society
Author: The Making of the English Working Class
Author: E. P. ThompsonPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504022173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune). During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class—the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England’s greatest cultural and political force. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. E. P. Thompson’s magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain’s greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become a seminal text on the history of the working class. It remains incredibly relevant to the social and economic issues of current times, with the Guardian saying upon the book’s fiftieth anniversary that it “continues to delight and inspire new readers.”
Progressively Worse
Author: Robert PealPublisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9781906837624
Category : Education, Elementary
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760
Author: Myra ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The Story of a Working Man's Life
Author: William R WilliamsPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019984826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a firsthand account of a working-class man's life and travels around the world. From Europe to Asia, Africa to America, Francis Mason recounts his experiences in a relatable and engaging way. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the daily life of a 19th-century working man and the world as it was during his travels. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
Author: Joshua KingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814255292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
The American Weekly Mercury
Author: Paper Bullets
Author: Harold M. WeberPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority—especially the monarchy—and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.