The rise and fall of class in Britain / David Cannadine.
The rise and fall of class in Britain / David Cannadine.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.
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N305.50941/15
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English
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xv, 293 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Beyond Class - Forward to Class? Class as History. Class Dismissed. Class as Social Description. Class Here, Now, and Then -- Ch. 2. The Eighteenth Century: Class Without Class Struggle. English Social Worlds. British Social Worlds. Social Life and Social Perceptions. Creating a Classless Soc...
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1999.
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Encompassing social, intellectual, and political history, Cannadine uncovers the meanings of class from Adam Smith to Karl Marx to Margaret Thatcher, showing the key moments in which thinking about class shifted, such as the aftermath of the French Revolution and the rise of the Labour Party in the early twentieth century. He cogently argues that M...
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The rise and fall of class in Britain / David Cannadine.
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University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-274) and index.
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English.
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c1999.
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N305.50941/15
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0231096666
9780231096669 (acid-free paper)
0231096666 (acid-free paper)
9780231096669
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305.50941
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991002260339702626
