The Making of an Englishman
Author | : Fred Uhlman |
Publisher | : London, Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Diaries |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Fred Uhlman |
Publisher | : London, Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Diaries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward Palmer Thompson |
Publisher | : IICA |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.
Author | : E. P. Thompson |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1504022173 |
A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune). During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class—the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England’s greatest cultural and political force. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. E. P. Thompson’s magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain’s greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become a seminal text on the history of the working class. It remains incredibly relevant to the social and economic issues of current times, with the Guardian saying upon the book’s fiftieth anniversary that it “continues to delight and inspire new readers.”
Author | : Margaret Willes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2011-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300163827 |
The people and publications at the root of a national obsession
Author | : Krishan Kumar |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2003-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521777360 |
Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.
Author | : Peter Gilliver |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2016-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191009687 |
This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources-including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony-to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in 1884 to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers' working methods, and provides much information about the people-many of them remarkable individuals-who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half.
Author | : Antoinette Burton |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2020-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789204720 |
For better or worse, E.P. Thompson’s monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectual lives of generations of readers since its original publication in 1963. This collected volume explores the complex impact of Thompson’s book, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.
Author | : Gerald Hammond |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2022-12-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1504081269 |
A renowned Bible scholar examines how the Hebrew text has been interpreted—and misinterpreted—from the Renaissance to modern times. In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, Gerald Hammond sheds light on how the Bible has evolved over centuries of English-language translation. His extensive analysis begins in the sixteenth century with William Tyndale’s pioneering work. This early text is contrasted with the seventeenth century authorized version, showing how each in their own ways attempted to bring the meaning and nuance of the Hebrew scripture to English readers. Between these towering Renaissance works, Hammond examines the two Bibles translated by Miles Coverdale; the Geneva Bible; the Bishops’ Bible; and the Catholic Bible. He also offers incisive criticism of the New English Bible, demonstrating that—in the pursuit of accessibility above all—the newer translations seem to have given up on what should be essential: faithful adherence to the source.
Author | : W. G. Hoskins |
Publisher | : Nature Classics Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9781908213105 |
The classic text of English landscape history, ground-breaking and hugely influential.