In this incisive analysis of the social character of the British working class from 1880 to the early 1950s, McKibbin examines different aspects of British political, social, and economic history to give an integrated explanation of the development of modern British society and the ideological assumptions on which it is founded.
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Ross McKibbin is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at St John's College, Oxford.
"McKibbin's essays are often fresh and illuminating....McKibbin writes gracefully and displays remarkable scope and erudition."--The New York Review of Books
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