The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
- ISBN-10
- 0300098081
- ISBN-13
- 9780300098082
- Series
- The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 534
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Jonathan Rose
Description
This landmark book traces the rise and decline of the British autodidact from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. Using innovative research techniques and a vast range of unexpected sources such as workers' memoris, social surveys and library registers, Rose shows which books people read, how and why they educated themselves, and what they knew. In the process he shines a bold new light on working class politics, ideology, popular culture and the life of the mind. This book has won the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award 2001, the SHARP History Book Prize, the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History 2001 and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Award. Book jacket.
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