ISBN: PB: 9780300257847

Yale University Press

October 2022

560 pp.

19,7x12,7 cm

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Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Third Edition

This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day.

About the author

Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Drew University. His 2001 book for Yale, "The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes", was winner of many prizes including the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History and was named a Book of the Year by "The Economist" magazine.