all the while attempting to maintain family ties across imperial distances-the British working class in the nineteenth century was a globalised population. This book reveals how working-class men and ...

But nineteenth-century Americans were eager to represent ... Meanwhile, industrialization also forced free women in northern working-class households to labor for cash, as street vendors, tavern ...

Eighteenth-century Quaker women exercised ... generally middle or upper class, tended to ignore the increasing poverty of the working class and the emerging industrialism of America, but their ...

Joshua Carter Belleville News-Democrat Born some time in the early 19th century (usually dated to 1837 ... Jones sits open ...

Its origins date back to the late 19th century, when activists first sought to establish a day to pay tribute to workers. The ...

Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was the most celebrated women artist of her time. A committed member of the Impressionist movement, ...

Marriage for working-class women was an economic necessity in 19th-century Britain, as they rarely earned enough to support themselves, let alone any children. For widows, children could be ...

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Towns and cities experienced unprecedented growth from the late 18th century ... middle-class people whose living conditions were much more pleasant and spacious than the working-class districts.

Almost nothing was known of the composition of substances of vegetable or animal origin, that great and important class ... nineteenth century opened, there were, however, certain men at work ...

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By attending to the little-examined work of southern women journalists and editors ... He is a co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays, The Southern Middle Class in the Nineteenth Century. He ...