Book ID: CBB516804754

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2021)

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Rose, Jonathan E. (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 560
Language: English

This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain’s working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day. “An astonishing book.”—Ian Sansom, The Guardian “A passionate work of history. . . . Rose has written a work of staggering ambition.”—Daniel Akst, Wall Street Journal Winner of the SHARP Book History Prize, the American Philosophical Society’s Jacques Barzun Prize, and the British Council Prize cowinner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize for 2001; named one of the finest books of 2001 by The Economist.

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Authors & Contributors
Sharman Levinson
Alain Giami
Alan Jacobs
Medwed, Karen
Stob, Paul
Dietz, Feike
Concepts
Reading
Education
Intellectual history
Teaching; pedagogy
Science and society
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Time Periods
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
France
Republic of China (1912-1949)
Andes
England
Institutions
Oxford University
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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