Book ID: CBB516804754

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2021)

unapi

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.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB516804754/

Similar Citations

Chapter Alberto Cevolini; (2016)
Storing Expansions: Openness and Closure in Secondary Memories (/isis/citation/CBB246313956/)

Book PETER MACK; (2021)
Reading Old Books : Writing with traditions. (/isis/citation/CBB583902177/)

Book Apple, Rima D.; Downey, Gregory John; Vaughn, Stephen; (2012)
Science in Print: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print (/isis/citation/CBB001252873/)

Book Theodore Ziolkowski; (2015)
Alchemist in Literature: From Dante to the Present (/isis/citation/CBB915911039/)

Article Steve Mentz; (2019)
Experience Is Better than Knowledge: Premodern Ocean Science and the Blue Humanities (/isis/citation/CBB088326937/)

Book Richard Wallace; Jon Burrows; (2022)
Reel Change: A History of British Cinema from the Projection Box (/isis/citation/CBB902710803/)

Book Johanne COLLIN; (2020)
Nouvelle ordonnance: Quatre siècles d'histoire de la pharmacie au Québec (/isis/citation/CBB757412279/)

Book Sumathi Ramaswamy; (2017)
Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globe (/isis/citation/CBB726390594/)

Article Dransart, Penelope; (2013)
“Back Room” Pedagogies in University Museums in Britain (/isis/citation/CBB001212432/)

Book Hatfield, Gabrielle; (2013)
Memory, Wisdom and Healing: The History of Domestic Plant Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB001213222/)

Book Alan Jacobs; (2011)
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (/isis/citation/CBB100841866/)

Chapter Fabian Krämer; (2016)
Albrecht von Haller as an ‘Enlightened’ Reader-Observer (/isis/citation/CBB406483056/)

Book Angela G. Ray; Paul Stob; (2018)
Thinking Together: Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century (/isis/citation/CBB086840210/)

Authors & Contributors
Apple, Rima D.
Barany, Michael J.
Collin, Johanne
Downey, Gregory John
Dransart, Penelope
Edgington, John
Journals
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
European Legacy
Journal of the History of Ideas
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Science in Context
Publishers
Oxford University Press
History Press
Indiana University Press
Pennsylvania State University Press
Presses de l'Université de Montréal
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Reading
Education
Teaching; pedagogy
Labor and laborers
Books
Intellectual history
People
Campe, Joachim Heinrich
Alighieri, Dante
Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim
Haller, Albrecht von
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
Time Periods
Early modern
Modern
17th century
18th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
France
Brazil
India
Bolivia
Institutions
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Oxford University
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment