The Making of the English Working Class

1964
The Making of the English Working Class

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  • Author: Edward Palmer Thompson
  • Publisher: IICA
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 866

This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.

Histories of a Radical Book

2020-11-01
Histories of a Radical Book

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  • Author: Antoinette Burton
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 1789204720
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 146

For better or worse, E.P. Thompson’s monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectual lives of generations of readers since its original publication in 1963. This collected volume explores the complex impact of Thompson’s book, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.

The Making of English National Identity

2003-03-13
The Making of English National Identity

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  • Author: Krishan Kumar
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521777360
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 390

Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.

The Making of English

1904
The Making of English

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  • Author: Henry Bradley
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 270

The Making of English Photography: Allegories

The Making of English Photography: Allegories

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  • Publisher: Penn State Press
  • ISBN: 9780271048376
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 392

Since the production of the first negative by William Henry Fox Talbot in Wiltshire's Lacock Abbey in 1835, English photography has played a central role in revolutionizing the production of images, yet it has largely evaded critical attention. The Making of English Photography investigates this new enterprise--and specifically how professional photographers shaped a strange aesthetic for their practice. The Making of English Photography examines the development of English photography as an industrial, commercial, and (most problematically) artistic enterprise. Concentrating on the first decades of photography's history, Edwards tracks the pivotal distinction between art and document as it emerged in the writings of the "men of science" and professional photographers, suggesting that this key opposition is rooted in social fantasies of the worker. Through a close reading of the photographic press in the 1860s, he both reconstructs the ideological world of photographers and employs the unstable category of photography to cast light on art, class, and industrial knowledge. Bringing together an array of early photographs, recent historical and theoretical scholarship, and extensive archival sources, The Making of English Photography sheds new light on the prevailing discourses of photography as well as the antinomies of art and work in a world shaped by social division.

The Making of English Popular Culture

2016-05-20
The Making of English Popular Culture

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  • Author: John Storey
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317519663
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 275

The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century. While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes that accompanied the industrial revolution. Particularly significant are the technological changes that made the production of new forms of culture possible and the concentration of people in urban areas that created significant audiences for this new culture. Consisting of fourteen original chapters that cover diverse topics ranging from seaside holidays and the invention of Christmas tradition, to advertising, music and popular fiction, the collection aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between culture and power, as explored through areas such as ‘race’, ethnicity, class, sexuality and gender. It also aims to encourage within cultural studies a renewed historical sense when engaging critically with popular culture by exploring the historical conditions surrounding the existence of popular texts and practices. Written in a highly accessible style The Making of English Popular Culture is an ideal text for undergraduates studying cultural and media studies, literary studies, cultural history and visual culture.

The Making of the Modern English State, 1460-1660

The Making of the Modern English State, 1460-1660

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  • Languages : en
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The Making of Chaucer's English

1998
The Making of Chaucer's English

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  • Author: Christopher Cannon
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521592741
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 468

A substantial reappraisal of the place of Chaucer's English in the history of English language and literature.

The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

2016-09-22
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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  • Author: Peter Gilliver
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0191009687
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 688

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources-including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony-to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in 1884 to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers' working methods, and provides much information about the people-many of them remarkable individuals-who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half.

The Making of the English Working Class

2016-03-15
The Making of the English Working Class

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  • Author: E. P. Thompson
  • Publisher: Open Road Media
  • ISBN: 1504022173
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 496

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.”