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E. P. Thompson The Making of the English Working Class Paperback Book

E. P. Thompson The Making of the English Working Class Paperback Book

by E. P. Thompson

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GTIN09780141976952
EAN9780141976952
MPN9780141976952
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Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompsons revolutionary account of workingclass culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael KennyThis classic and imaginative account of workingclass society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and recreates the wholelife experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation, and who yet created a cultured and political consciousness of great vitality. ReviewsA dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then and now once again neglected culture of workingclass England Martin Kettle, ObserverSuperbly readable . . . a moving account of the culture of the selftaught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation Asa Briggs, Financial TimesThompsons work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst E. J. Hobsbawm, IndependentAn event not merely in the writing of English history but in the politics of our century Michael Foot, Times Literary SupplementThe greatest of our socialist historians Terry Eagleton, New StatesmanAbout the authorE. P. Thompson was born in 1924 and read history at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, graduating in 1946. An academic, writer and acclaimed historian, his first major work was a biography of William Morris. The Making of the... | E. P. Thompson The Making of the English Working Class Paperback Book

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