The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010 - Tapa dura

Todd, Selina

 
9781848548817: The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
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ISBN 10: 1848548818 ISBN 13: 9781848548817
Editorial: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2014

Sinopsis

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised I would have to write this history myself.'

What was it really like to live through the twentieth century? In 1910 three-quarters of the population were working class, but their story has been ignored until now.

Based on the first-person accounts of servants, factory workers, miners and housewives, award-winning historian Selina Todd reveals an unexpected Britain where cinema audiences shook their fists at footage of Winston Churchill, communities supported strikers and pools winners (like Viv Nicholson) refused to become respectable. Charting the rise of the working class, through two world wars to their fall in Thatcher's Britain and today, Todd tells their story for the first time, in their own words.

Uncovering a huge hidden swathe of Britain's past, The People is the vivid history of a revolutionary century and the people who really made Britain great.

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Selina Todd is Fellow and Vice Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford, and a highly respected social historian. Her first book, Young Women, Work, and Family in England, won the Women's History Network Book Prize.

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Editorial
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1848548818
ISBN 13 
9781848548817
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Número de páginas
464
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9781848548824: The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

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ISBN 10:  1848548826 ISBN 13:  9781848548824
Editorial: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2015
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