The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
by Jonathan Rose
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages544 pages
ISBN
9780300098082
Published
2001
Description
This prizewinning book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, the a...This prizewinning book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, the author discovers how members of the working classes educated themselves, which books they read, and how their reading influenced them.