The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Rose Jonathan)(Paperback)

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Rose Jonathan)(Paperback)

This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new

Labor's Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life (Higbie Tobias)(Paperback)

Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America's sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. Working people regularly

The Gardens of the British Working Class (Willes Margaret)(Paperback)

Spanning four centuries, Margaret Willes's vibrant people's history examines the myriad ways that the popular cultivation of plants, vegetables, and flowers has played an integral role in everyday British life for more than four

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Rickard Sophie)(Paperback)

Adapted from Robert Tressell's 1914 socialist novel about English working-class life, this British classic sets out the blueprint for how to organize a fairer society Robert Tressell's groundbreaking socialist novel, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, tells the story of a group of working men

The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain (Ramdin Ron)(Paperback)

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour needs. It places in an historical context the development of

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Sillitoe Alan)(Paperback / softback)

This cult classic of working class life in post-war Nottingham follows the exploits of rebellious factory worker Arthur Seaton and is introduced by Richard Bradford.Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting hooligan, he

Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction (Barnes Jonathan)(Paperback)

The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics, and

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Jones Owen)(Paperback)

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become

Intellectual Disabilities - A Systemic Approach(Paperback / softback)

The application of systemic ideas and principles in working with people with intellectual disabilities, their families, and their service systems has grown over the last decade. This book, for the first time, brings together the writings of a group of practitioners who have been using this approach

Road to Wigan Pier (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

Features observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. This title provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment and

Road to Wigan Pier (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

Deals with the working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, the Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. This title includes descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing,

The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of Working-Class Politics (Winlow Simon)(Paperback)

Liza's England (Barker Pat)(Paperback / softback)

* by one of the finest chroniclers of the lives of northern working-class

The History of the British U Class Submarine (Walters Derek)(Paperback)

Original designed in 1934 for anti-submarine training, by the end of the war seventy-two U-Class subs had been commissioned.Seventeen were lost to the enemy and three in accidents. Manned by crews from seven nations' navies, they served world-wide and never more successfully than in the Med, where

The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great (Fielding Henry)(Paperback)

The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled 'Thieftaker General', controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists

Television Studies (Gray Jonathan)(Paperback)

Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of television studies. The book charts the establishment of the field, and examines its various approaches and objects of study. What have been the primary areas of inquiry in television studies? Why

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (Damrosch Leo)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography: The life of satirist Jonathan Swift, written by a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature 'Superb. . . . Damrosch's outstanding book has raised Swift's provocative genius to life.'--Jeffrey Collins,

The Paris Commune (Lowy Michael)(Paperback)

The Paris Commune of 1871 was one of the first working class attempts at the social emancipation of the oppressed and exploited. Between 18 March and 29 May 1871, the popular classes succeeded for a while in breaking their chains. It was a short period when people could take control of their lives

Achillbeg - The Life of an Island (Beaumont Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Making of the English Working Class (Thompson E. P.)(Paperback / softback)

Offers an account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832. This English social history 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, and who underwent

British Destroyers 1939-45: Wartime-Built Classes (Konstam Angus)(Paperback)

As the possibility of war loomed in the 1930s, the British Admiralty looked to update their fleet of destroyers to compete with the new ships being built by Germany and Japan, resulting in the commissioning of the powerful Tribal-class. These were followed by the designing of the first of several

Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century (Phillips Jim)(Paperback)

Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal miner Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners

Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (Phillips Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Irwin Robert)(Paperback)

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the