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An Artisan Intellectual: James Carter and the Rise of Modern Britain, 1792-1853

An Artisan Intellectual: James Carter and the Rise of Modern Britain, 1792-1853

Ferguson, Christopher

Hardcover

Historical FiguresGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0807163805
ISBN13: 9780807163801
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Dec 14 2016
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

In An Artisan Intellectual, Christopher Ferguson examines the life and ideas of English tailor and writer James Carter, one of countless and largely anonymous citizens whose lives dramatically transformed during Britain's long march to modernity. Carter began his working life at age thirteen as an apprentice and continued to work as a tailor throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, first in Colchester and then in London. As the Industrial Revolution brought innovations to every aspect of British life, Carter took advantage of opportunities to push against the boundaries of his working-class background. He supplemented his income through his writing, publishing often unsigned books, articles, and poems on subjects as diverse as religion, death, nature, aesthetics, and theories of civilization.


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