An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society: Kentish London 1840-1880 Contributor(s): Crossick, Geoffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 113864708X ISBN-13: 9781138647084 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $168.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Modern - 19th Century - Reference | Questions & Answers |
Dewey: 001 |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World |
Physical Information: 306 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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Publisher Description: First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively stable in comparison with the turbulent period that preceded it, and that stability is in part explained by the emergence of an artisan elite with a specific relationship to the society around it. This book examines that elite: its clubs and societies, co-operatives and building societies; its values and ideology, challenging the notion that these artisans directly absorbed middle-class values; its politics, tracing the evolution from Chartism through the Reform League and on to a radical liberalism which existed in constant tension with the local liberal middle class. A careful reconstruction of the social, political and industrial life of these artisans is set within the context of the local communities, and their understanding of the mid-Victorian society in which they lived is seen as the explanation for their values and activities. This title makes a major contribution towards our understanding of the nineteenth-century working class. |