Chambers's Repository Of Instructive And Amusing Tracts - Softcover

Various Authors

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371328772 ISBN 13: 9780371328774

Publisher: HardPress, 2016

Synopsis

Chambers's Repository Of Instructive And Amusing Tracts is a mid-19th-century collection that presents a documentary, editorial voice blending reportage, social critique, and moral reflection. In its opening sections it surveys Manchester as a cotton metropolis, detailing mills, housing, wages, health, and the social costs of rapid industrial growth, while tracing reform aspirations such as the Ten Hours' Bill and factory education. It then offers a geographic and economic survey of Australia and its gold regions, explaining geology, mining processes, and the social implications of gold rushes. A domestic Scottish tale, Helen Gray, probes virtue, pride, and responsibility through intimate character interplay and class-bound context. The volume also includes broader sketches and narratives—from treason and espionage in early America to abridged classics and biographical portraits of reformers—examining leadership, governance, and cultural life. Across these pieces, the collection foregrounds reform through education, sanitation, and civic institutions, while honestly recording the social costs of industrial progress and measuring the hope of improvement.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371328772
• ISBN 13: 9780371328774
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 532