Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the Unied States, 1800-1862

Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the Unied States, 1800-1862

Bronstein, Jamie L.

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryBritish HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0804734518
ISBN13: 9780804734516
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 1 1999
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.35
Language: English

By exploring in detail land reform movements in Britain and the United States, this book transcends traditional labor history and conceptions of class to deepen our understanding of the social, political, and economic history of both countries in the nineteenth century.

Although divided by their diverse experiences of industrialization, and living in countries with different amounts of available land, many working people in both Britain and the United States dreamed of free or inexpensive land to release them from the grim conditions of the 1840's: depressing, overcrowded cities, low wages or unemployment, and stifling lives. Focusing on the Chartist Land Company, the Potters' Joint-Stock Emigration Society, and the American National Reform movement, this study analyses the ideas that motivated workers to turn to land reform, the creation of working-class land reform cultures and identities among both men and women, and the international communication that enabled the formation of a transatlantic movement.

Also in

Social Movements

View All