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427 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780946495047
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Bracken Books
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew vowed "to publish the history of a people, ...
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427 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780946495047
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Bracken Books
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew vowed "to publish the history of a people, ...