A landmark history of the lost world of peasants and all it has to teach us, from one of Britain's leading social historians

A way of life that once encompassed…

The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce's Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the "Hades" episode. This volume explores how Dignam's interment in Glasnevin Cemetery allowed Joyce the…

This is a study of how the labouring poor of nineteenth-century industrial England saw the social order of which they were a part. It attacks orthodoxies and sets up new…

This study explores critically the nature of class identity by looking at the formation and influence of two men (Edwin Waugh and John Bright) who might be taken as representative…

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

Introduce young readers to the rich and complex history of Ireland with this engaging and informative textbook. Written by renowned scholar P.W. Joyce, the book covers a range of topics…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated…