Books Details
Author : E.P. Thompson Pages : 864 pages Publisher : Knopt Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0394703227 ISBN-13 : 9780394703220
Books Descriptions
This account of artisan & working-class society in its formative years,
1780-1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the 19th
century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own
making & recreates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss
of status & freedom, who underwent degradation & who yet created a
culture & political consciousness of great vitality. "Thompson's book has
been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have
forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency & the early reign
of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working
Class is the most important study of those days since the classic work of
the Hammonds."--Commentary "Mr Thompson's deeply human imagination
& controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms & illusions
of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of
the English people should fail to
