Some Reminiscences, 1838-1918
Author : Henry Willey Williams
Publisher : Gale and the British Library
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Henry Willey Williams
Publisher : Gale and the British Library
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Best books
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Page : 610 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : British Museum
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Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : Jane Humphries
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1139489283
This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.
Author : British Library
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Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 1922
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Railroads
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Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : British Museum
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Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : Graeme J. Milne
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0228021839
Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. As sail gave way to steam, sailing-ship mariners became nostalgic symbols of maritime prowess and heritage, representing a timeless, heroic masculinity in an era when the modernizing industrial world was challenging assumptions about gender, class, work, and society. Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail argues that maritime writing moulded the reading public’s image of the merchant seaman. Authors chronicled their lives as they grew from boy sailors to trained seafarers, telling colourful tales of the men they worked with – most never doubted that the sailing ship had made them better men. Their testimony reinforced and preserved conservative perspectives on seafaring manhood as Britain’s economic and technological priorities continued to evolve in the new steamship age. Offering a gender analysis of the image of the seafarer, Making Men in the Age of Sail brings the history of British sailors into wider debates about modernity and masculinity.