Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Some Reminiscences, 1838-1918
Author: Henry Willey WilliamsPublisher: Gale and the British Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Publisher
Author: Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryChildhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution
Author: Jane HumphriesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139489283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
The Railway Magazine
Author: Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library
Author: The Happiness of the British Working Class
Author: Jamie L. BronsteinPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503633853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
For working-class life writers in nineteenth century Britain, happiness was a multifaceted emotion: a concept that could describe experiences of hedonic pleasure, foster and deepen social relationships, drive individuals to self-improvement, and lead them to look back over their lives and evaluate whether they were well-lived. However, not all working-class autobiographers shared the same concepts or valorizations of happiness, as variables such as geography, gender, political affiliation, and social and economic mobility often influenced the way they defined and experienced their emotional lives. The Happiness of the British Working Class employs and analyzes over 350 autobiographies of individuals in England, Scotland, and Ireland to explore the sources of happiness of British working people born before 1870. Drawing from careful examinations of their personal narratives, Jamie L. Bronstein investigates the ways in which working people thought about the good life as seen through their experiences with family and friends, rewarding work, interaction with the natural world, science and creativity, political causes and religious commitments, and physical and economic struggles. Informed by the history of emotions and the philosophical and social-scientific literature on happiness, this book reflects broadly on the industrial-era working-class experience in an era of immense social and economic change.