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Living and Learning

Living and Learning Essays in Honour of J. F. C. Harrison

Hardback (28 Mar 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This original collection of critical essays on key issues of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rural life, popular politics and beliefs brings together fifteen historians of the first rank. All have been closely associated with the influential figure of J. F. C. Harrison, and all share an interest in the importance of the intimately personal in history, as opposed to the history of impersonal institutions. Among the essays on popular belief are studies of millenarianism, the secularist tradition and a fascinating case study of American Muggletonianism - the last by the late E. P. Thompson. Other important essays address Chartism, gender and autobiography, vegetarianism and popular journalism. There are critical evaluations of the influence of America on British radicalism and socialism, on the motives that drove workers' children to become teachers, and on the construction of images of English rural life.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781859281109
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 941.081
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 550g
Height: 165mm
Width: 241mm
Spine width: 25mm