The making of the English working class
by Thompson, E. P., (Edward Palmer)
fromVintage giant
Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn…
"Peter Linebaugh's great act of historical imagination ... takes the cliché of 'globalization' and makes it live"--Cover. "Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English mid…
Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn…
An account of artisan and working-class society in England in its formative years, 1780 to 1832. Gives controversial assessments of the popular traditions of the eighteenth century, the cost-of-living controversy, the role of Methodism and the genesis of parliamentary reform.
The making of the English working class
by Thompson, E. P., (Edward Palmer)
fromPenguin history
The making of the English working class
by Thompson, E. P., (Edward Palmer)
fromPelican Books