Spen Valley, Past and Present

Spen Valley, Past and Present PDF Author: Frank Peel
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Category : Spen Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Spen Valley, Past and Present

Spen Valley, Past and Present PDF Author: Frank Peel
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Category : Spen Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Spen Valley, Past and Present

Spen Valley, Past and Present PDF Author: Frank Peel
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781298635945
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Languages : en
Pages : 518

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The Risings of the Luddites

The Risings of the Luddites PDF Author: Frank Peel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429627130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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Published in 1968. Interest in the Luddite machine-breaking and food riots of 1812 which took place in the North and Midlands continues unabated. Peel was a pioneer local historian, collecting oral accounts from participants and old inhabitants, as well as studying the printed evidence carefully. In the introduction to the new edition, E. P. Thompson clams that Peel's general account of Luddism in that part of Yorkshire in which he was interested (around Huddersfield) has proved to be more accurate than the analysis of Luddism as a purely industrial phenomenon given by twentieth-century historians, including the Hammonds. This book will be useful to historians of working-class movements.

Tom Paine

Tom Paine PDF Author: John Keane
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802139641
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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"More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world." So begins John Keane's magnificent and award-winning (the Fraunces Tavern Book Award) biography of one of democracy's greatest champions. Among friends and enemies alike, Paine earned a reputation as a notorious pamphleteer, one of the greatest political figures of his day, and the author of three best-selling books, Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. Setting his compelling narrative against a vivid social backdrop of prerevolutionary America and the French Revolution, John Keane melds together the public and the shadowy private sides of Paine's life in a remarkable piece of scholarship. This is the definitive biography of a man whose life and work profoundly shaped the modern age. "Provide[s] an engaging perspective on England, America, and France in the tumultuous years of the late eighteenth century." -- Pauline Maier, The New York Times Book Review "It is hard to imagine this magnificent biography ever being superceded.... It is a stylish, splendidly erudite work." -- Terry Eagleton, The Guardian

Yorkshire County Magazine

Yorkshire County Magazine PDF Author: Joseph Horsfall Turner
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Category : Yorkshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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A History of the Chartist Movement

A History of the Chartist Movement PDF Author: Julius West
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Category : Chartism
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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The Making of the English Working Class

The Making of the English Working Class PDF Author: E. P. Thompson
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504022173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune). During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class—the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England’s greatest cultural and political force. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. E. P. Thompson’s magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain’s greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become a seminal text on the history of the working class. It remains incredibly relevant to the social and economic issues of current times, with the Guardian saying upon the book’s fiftieth anniversary that it “continues to delight and inspire new readers.”

The Antiquary

The Antiquary PDF Author: Edward Walford
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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists & Plug-drawers

The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists & Plug-drawers PDF Author: Frank Peel
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Category : Chartism
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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The Factory Movement, 1830-1855

The Factory Movement, 1830-1855 PDF Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349817597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 523

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