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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455007103321

Autore

Host John <1946, >

Titolo

Victorian labour history : experience, identity and the politics of representation / / John Host

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-66322-6

1-138-00719-6

0-203-06796-7

1-280-33049-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

322/.2/094209034

Soggetti

Working class - Great Britain - Political activity - History - 19th century

Labor movement - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Representative government and representation - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Chartism - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.256-272) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Book Cover""; ""Title""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Narratives of the past or histories of the present?""; ""Social identity and the representation of experience""; ""Who are 'the people' in mid-Victorian labour history?""; ""Narrative history and the politics of exclusion""; ""Afterword""; ""Appendix: Evidence of witnesses in the cases of William Pearce and James Bristol""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.