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An everyday life of the English working class : work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century /
"This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgements; A note on texts and transcription; Prologue: what are they like?; 1 An introduction, shewing what kind of history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like; 2 Books do furnish a mind; 3 Family and friends; 4 Fears as loyons: drinking and fighting; 5 Sex and the single man; 6 Talking law; 7 Earthly powers; 8 Getting and spending; 9 Knitting and frames; 10 The knocking at the gate: General Ludd; 11 Some conclusions: writing everyday; Bibliography; Archival documents; Berkshire County Record Office, Reading.
- East Sussex County Record Office, LewesLincolńs Inn Library, London; The National Archives, Kew; Nottinghamshire Archives (NA), Nottingham; Shropshire Archives, Shrewsbury; University of Nottingham, Manuscripts and Special Collections; Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwick; Wiltshire Record Office, Trowbridge; Parliamentary papers and other parliamentary proceedings; Fiction, diary, l̀iveś, poetry, drama, song, and jest books; Primary tracts, treatises, reviews, and other publications, pre-1900.; Secondary sources; Newspapers and periodicals; Websites and electronic resources.