Time, history and the making of the industrial middle class: the story of Samuel Smith.
This article uses the politics of time to explore the making of the industrial middle class. It argues that anxieties about the decline of industry and the future of liberalism at the end of the nineteenth century fuelled a small explosion in life writing, prosopography and popular history. Accounts...
| Publicado en: | Social History Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 29 - 52 |
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