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  • ENGLAND EATS OUT
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    ENGLAND EATS OUT
    JOHN BURNETT
    Why do so many people now eat out in England? Food and the culture surrounding how we consume it are high on everyone’s agenda. England Eats Out is the ultimate book for a nation obsessed with food. Today eating out is more than just getting fed; it is an expression of lifestyle. In the past it has been crucial to survival for the impoverished but a primary form of entertainmen...

    $1,580.00

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  • USEFUL TOIL
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    USEFUL TOIL
    PROFFESSOR JOHN BURNETT / JOHN BURNETT
    Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and wom...

    $1,280.00

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  • DESTINY OBSCURE
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    DESTINY OBSCURE
    PROFFESSOR JOHN BURNETT / JOHN BURNETT
    In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of nineteenth-century working-class life. Besides affording rare insights into the developing child's world of dreams, hopes and fears, th...

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  • PLENTY AND WANT
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    PLENTY AND WANT
    PROFFESSOR JOHN BURNETT / JOHN BURNETT
    What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of English food habits since the industrial revolution answers these questions and more. ...

    $1,340.00

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  • LIQUID PLEASURES
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    LIQUID PLEASURES
    PROFFESSOR JOHN BURNETT / JOHN BURNETT
    Drinking has always meant much more than satisfying the thirst. Drinking can be a necessity, a comfort, an indulgence or a social activity. Liquid Pleasures is an engrossing study of the social history of drinks in Britain from the late seventeenth century to the present. From the first cup of tea at breakfast to mid-morning coffee, to an eveining beer and a 'night-cap', John B...

    $1,240.00

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  • IDLE HANDS
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    IDLE HANDS
    PROFFESSOR JOHN BURNETT / JOHN BURNETT
    Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems. Direct evidence of the impact of unemployment drawn from extensive personal biographies complements econo...

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  • A SOCIAL HISTORY OF HOUSING 1815–1985
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    A SOCIAL HISTORY OF HOUSING 1815–1985
    JOHN BURNETT
    Originally published in 1986, for the second edition of this standard text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 1815–1985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years. It remains a comprehensive and important survey, covering over a century and a half of developments in housing conditions both urban and rural, pu...

    $1,480.00

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