1st Edition
Victorian Labour History Experience, Identity and the Politics of Representation
By John Host
Copyright 1998
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2004. In Victorian Labour History: Experience, Identity and the Politics of Representation, John Host addresses liberal, Marxist and postmodernist historiography on Victorian working people to question the special status of historical knowledge. The central focus of this study is a debate about mid-Victorian social stability, a condition conventionally equated with popular... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Narratives of the past or histories of the present?, 2. Social identity and the representation of experience, 3. Who are ‘the people’ in mid-Victorian labour history?, 4. Narrative history and the politics of exclusion, Afterword, Appendix: Evidence of witnesses in the cases of William Pearce and James Bristol, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
John Host is Associate Lecturer in History and Sociology at the Centre for Aboriginal Programmes, The University of Western Australia.
