Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820's to the 1920's - Couverture rigide

 
9780713906820: Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820's to the 1920's
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ISBN 10 : 0713906820 ISBN 13 : 9780713906820
Editeur : Allen Lane, 1974

Présentation de l'éditeur

Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and beliefs.
Burnett's broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualise the wealth of material. These stories provide the antithesis of `great name' history, yet they constantly touch on human experiences that are timeless and universal.

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Éditeur
Allen Lane
Date d'édition
1974
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0713906820
ISBN 13 
9780713906820
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
368
Éditeur
Burnett Professor John
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780140073461: Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820S to the 1920S

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0140073469 ISBN 13 :  9780140073461
Editeur : Penguin, 1984
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