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LITERACY AND POPULAR CULTURE
ENGLAND 1750-1914 |
| By: |
David Vincent, Peter Burke, Ruth Finnegan |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521457718 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521457712 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 July, 1993 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture No.19 |
| Pages: |
376 |
| Description: |
A study of how and why literacy spread into every corner of English society between 1750 and 1914. |
| Synopsis: |
In l750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by l9l4 England, together with a handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in history achieved a nominally literate society. This book seeks to understand how and why literacy spread into every corner of English society, and what impact it had on the lives and minds of the common people. |
| Illustrations: |
4 line drawings, 12 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
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