
Book contents
- An Everyday Life of the English Working Class
- An Everyday Life of the English Working Class
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- A note on texts and transcription
- Prologue: what are they like?
- 1 An introduction, shewing what kind of history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like
- 2 Books do furnish a mind
- 3 Family and friends
- 4 Fears as loyons: drinking and fighting
- 5 Sex and the single man
- 6 Talking law
- 7 Earthly powers
- 8 Getting and spending
- 9 Knitting and frames
- 10 The knocking at the gate: General Ludd
- 11 Some conclusions: writing everyday
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- An Everyday Life of the English Working Class
- An Everyday Life of the English Working Class
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- A note on texts and transcription
- Prologue: what are they like?
- 1 An introduction, shewing what kind of history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like
- 2 Books do furnish a mind
- 3 Family and friends
- 4 Fears as loyons: drinking and fighting
- 5 Sex and the single man
- 6 Talking law
- 7 Earthly powers
- 8 Getting and spending
- 9 Knitting and frames
- 10 The knocking at the gate: General Ludd
- 11 Some conclusions: writing everyday
- Bibliography
- Index
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- An Everyday Life of the English Working ClassWork, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century, pp. 261 - 290Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013