Brad Beaven Libros

The exploration of working-class male leisure from 1850 to 1945 reveals its significance in shaping social dynamics and citizenship. Observers, especially middle-class reformers, viewed popular leisure as a reflection of working-class habits, crucial for fostering a bond with the newly enfranchised male worker. This book challenges the notion of a fragmented working-class culture by highlighting its continuity and active participation in cultural contestation, despite socio-economic changes. Drawing on rich primary and secondary sources, it offers valuable insights for students and scholars across various disciplines.

The narrative explores Ratcliffe Highway, known as the 'devil's highway,' during the transformative years between 1850 and 1900. It delves into the lives of sailors who frequented its vibrant yet perilous establishments, highlighting the duality of solace and trouble they encountered. The book also addresses Victorian anxieties surrounding urban modernity, illustrating how these fears reshaped perceptions of the area as a chaotic and threatening urban landscape, while critically analyzing its role as a global economic hub intertwined with vice and exploitation.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. -- .