Carolyn Steedman. An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 309. £19.99 (paperback).

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-245
Author(s):  
Hannah Barker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Carolyn Steedman

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
Hannah Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century

This book ends in 1750 but its preoccupations can be traced into the early nineteenth century. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars against France between 1793 and 1815 saw two decades of warfare. Fears of popular revolution dominated the 1790s and 1800s, with radical groups being fiercely suppressed. The government’s concern over radical politics and the politics of class extended to the army. It was remarked that military service abroad had led to soldiers becoming vehement democrats; troops were even alleged to have been reading that working-class radical text ...

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