the making of the english working class by ep thompson

Katrina Navickas explains how this heady mix created a politically charged region where both local and national affairs played their part. Highly active and vocal groups emerged - extreme republicans, more moderate radicals, Luddites, early trade unionists, and also strong networks of 'Church-and-King' loyalists and Orange lodges. This region witnessed some of the most intense, disruptive, and violent popular politics in this period and beyond. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, such as letters, diaries, and broadside ballads, it offers fresh insights into the complicated dynamics between radicalism, loyalism, and patriotism, and emphasises Lancashire's distinctive political culture and its place at the heart of the industrial revolution. He died in 1993.' * Illuminates the interplay between local and national affairs * Explores loyalism and radicalism in the era of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars * Reveals how conflicting ideologies developed in dialogue with one another Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815 is a lively and detailed account of popular politics in Lancashire during the later years of the French Revolution and during the Napoleonic wars. Thompson was also a fervent activist and a key figure in the ending of the Cold War. The Making of the English Working Class was instantly recognized as a classic upon its publication in 1963 and secured his position as one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century. (Edward Palmer) Thompson was born in England in 1924 and graduated from Cambridge in 1946 with a degree in history. From the Back Cover This is an active, valuing history, and its many clear judgments constitute an important challenge to many kinds of contemporary orthodoxy. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has be one of the most influential social commentaries every written. Thompsons magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britains greatest postwar historian. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as Englands greatest cultural and political force. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class-the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. Book Synopsis A seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.

The making of the english working class by ep thompson