Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, c.1848–1914 - Hardcover

Joyce, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052137152X ISBN 13: 9780521371520

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This is a study of how the labouring poor of nineteenth-century industrial England saw the social order of which they were a part. It attacks orthodoxies and sets up new questions by attending to a wide range of contemporary experience, from politics and work to language and art.

About this title

Book Description:

In examining how the laboring people of nineteenth-century England saw their social order, this text looks beyond class to reveal the significance of other sources of social identity and social imagery, including the notions of "the people" themselves.

About the Author:

Patrick Joyce is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester. He is a leading British social historian and has written and edited numerous books of social and political history, including Visions of the People (Cambridge University Press, 1991), The Oxford Reader on Class (1995), The Rule of Freedom (2003) and Material Powers (2010).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 052137152X
• ISBN 13: 9780521371520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 463