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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

of Jonathan Rose

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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.

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  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 544 pages
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Publication Date January 11th 2003
  • First Publication 11/06/01
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780300098082
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category History & Politics
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