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A people's history of classics : class and Greco-Roman antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 / Edith Hall and Henry Stead.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Edith, 1959- author.
- Stead, Henry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History.
- Civilization, Classical.
- Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching--Ireland--History.
- Working class--Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Working class.
- Intellectual life.
- Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Working class--Ireland--Intellectual life.
- Great Britain--Civilization--Greek influences.
- Civilization.
- Great Britain--Civilization--Roman influences.
- Ireland--Civilization--Greek influences.
- Ireland.
- Ireland--Civilization--Roman influences.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Ireland--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 642 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Motives and methods
- The invention of classics
- Working-class readers
- 18th-century working-class poets
- Classics and class in life-writing
- Working-class classics via the visual environment
- Staging class struggle classically
- Dissenting classics
- Workers' educational classics
- Classics & class in Ireland
- Scottish working classes
- Caractacus and Lloyd-George's recruiting drive in Wales
- Seditious classicists
- Underdog professors
- Ragged-trousered philologists
- Hinterland Greek
- Classical underworlds
- Class and the classical body
- Gods and heroes of the proletariat
- Shoemakers
- Pottery workers
- Miners
- Socialist and communist scholars
- Soldiers : Dai and Diomedes on the Somme
- Theatre practitioners.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781315446608
- 131544660X
- Publisher Number:
- 99984898195
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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