Liberty's Dawn (ePub)
A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).
This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of...
This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of...
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"Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).
This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class (The New Yorker). The era didn't just bring about misery and poverty. On the contrary, Emma Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom.
This rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of bestselling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers.
"Through the 'messy tales' of more than 350 working-class lives, Emma Griffin arrives at an upbeat interpretation of the Industrial Revolution most of us would hardly recognize. It is quite enthralling." -The Oldie magazine
"A triumph, achieved in fewer than 250 gracefully written pages. They persuasively purvey Griffin's historical conviction. She is intimate with her audience, wooing it and teasing it along the way." -The Times Literary Supplement
"An admirably intimate and expansive revisionist history." -Publishers Weekly
This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class (The New Yorker). The era didn't just bring about misery and poverty. On the contrary, Emma Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom.
This rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of bestselling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers.
"Through the 'messy tales' of more than 350 working-class lives, Emma Griffin arrives at an upbeat interpretation of the Industrial Revolution most of us would hardly recognize. It is quite enthralling." -The Oldie magazine
"A triumph, achieved in fewer than 250 gracefully written pages. They persuasively purvey Griffin's historical conviction. She is intimate with her audience, wooing it and teasing it along the way." -The Times Literary Supplement
"An admirably intimate and expansive revisionist history." -Publishers Weekly
Autoren-Porträt von Emma Griffin
Emma Griffin is professor of history at the University of East Anglia. She lives in Norwich, UK.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Emma Griffin
- 2019, 315 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Yale University Press (Ignition)
- ISBN-10: 0300194811
- ISBN-13: 9780300194814
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2019
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"A totally compelling account of the Industrial Revolution. Through a remarkable range of life stories, Emma Griffin opens up this extraordinary epoch of change, providing a brilliant chronicle of its social history and upending traditional interpretations in the process. With her light touch and rigorous scholarship, Griffin provides an important and rewarding overview of this defining moment in British history.' —Tristram Hunt, author of Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City"Emma Griffin's brilliant use of the voices of the poor that survive in memoirs allows us to grasp the ambiguities and complexities of their encounter with the momentous changes of the Industrial Revolution as never before. It was not simply a time of hardship and disruption but of opportunity and release from social constraints. Griffin's stylish and accessible account marks a major shift in our understanding of this period that moves beyond economic abstractions: we hear the voices of those who lived through the creation of the world's first industrial society." —Martin Daunton, author of Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1851–1951
"Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution." —Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London
“In this marvelous book, Liberty’s Dawn, Emma Griffin introduces us to or reacquaints us with 350 of the William Aitkens of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain—lower-class men and a handful of women who wrote autobiographies, some of them printed, many of them manuscript accounts discovered in repositories across the country.” —Brian Lewis, McGill University
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