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...

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Published in:	Social History Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 29 - 52
Main Author:	Loftus, Donna
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2017
Subjects:	Smith, Samuel, 1836-1906 Politicians Liberalism Middle class Autobiography Industrialism United Kingdom
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost