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Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 /

Working-class culture has often been depicted by historians as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beaven, Brad (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005.
Colección:Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Working-class culture has often been depicted by historians as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw on a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both cl.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 258 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.
ISBN:9781847793607
1847793606