The Making of the English Working Class - Couverture souple

Thompson, E. P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140136037 ISBN 13 : 9780140136036

Editeur : Penguin, 2002

Synopsis

This is a book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst (Eric Hobsbawm Independent)

A dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then - and now once again - neglected culture of working-class England (Martin Kettle Observer)

Superbly readable . . . a moving account of the culture of the self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation (Asa Briggs Financial Times)

An event not merely in the writing of English history but in the politics of our century (Michael Foot Times Literary Supplement)

The greatest of our socialist historians (Terry Eagleton New Statesman)

Biographie de l'auteur :

E. P. Thompson was born in 1924. Although never a member of the British academic establishment, he became one of the most influential, and political, historians of the twentieth century.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0140136037
• ISBN 13: 9780140136036
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 960