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Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

Door Emma Griffin

Categorie
Economie & Management
Boeknummer
#361804-XK9
Titel
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
Auteur
Griffin, Emma
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2014
ISBN10
0300205252
ISBN13
9780300205251
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. This book shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy and offered exciting opportunities for political action.
This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom. This rich personal account focuses on the social impac... (Lees verder)t of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of best-selling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers.
Pagina's
303
Conditie
Goed — Small light stain on cut.
Prijs
€ 9,00

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