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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
2005.
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Colección: | Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781847793607 1847793606 |