A Social History Of English

Author : Mr Dick Leith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134711441
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of English written by Mr Dick Leith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism, the issues of language maintenance and language loyalty, and linguistic variation. This new edition has been fully revised. Additions include: * new material about 'New Englishes' across the world * a new chapter entitled 'A Critical Linguistic History of English Texts' * a discussion of problems involved in writing a history of English All terms and concepts are explained as they are introduced, and linguistic examples are chosen for their accessibility and intelligibility to the general reader. It will be of interest to students of Sociolinguistics, English Language, History and Cultural Studies.

Author : Mr Dick Leith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113471145X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of English written by Mr Dick Leith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. 'An excellent book: original, clear and well-written.' - Albion

Author : Derek Birley
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1845137507
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of English Cricket written by Derek Birley and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as a magisterial, classic work, A Social History of English Cricket is an encyclopaedic survey of the game, from its humble origins all the way to modern floodlit finishes. But it is also the story of English culture, mirrored in a sport that has always been a complex repository of our manners, hierarchies and politics. Derek Birley’s survey of the impact on cricket of two world wars, Empire and ‘the English caste system’, will, contends Ian Wooldridge, ‘teach an intelligent child of twelve more about their heritage than he or she will ever pick up at school.’ In just under 400 pages Birley takes us through a rich historical tapestry: how the game was snatched from rustic obscurity by gentlemanly gamblers; became the height of late eighteenth century metropolitan fashion; was turned into both symbol and synonym for British imperialism; and its more recent struggle to dislodge the discomforting social values preserved in the game from its imperial heyday. Superbly witty and humorous, peopled by larger-than-life characters from Denis Compton to Ian Botham, and wholly forswearing nostalgia, A Social History of English Cricket is a tour-de-force by one of the great writers on cricket.

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521317634
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social History of Language written by Peter Burke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-10-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays brings together work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy.

Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134023340
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of English Rugby Union written by Tony Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England. Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history, leading rugby historian Tony Collins demonstrates how these values have shaped the English game, from the public schools to mass spectator sport, from strict amateurism to global professionalism. Based on unprecedented access to the official archives of the Rugby Football Union, and drawing on an impressive array of sources from club minutes to personal memoirs and contemporary literature, the book explores in vivid detail the key events, personalities and players that have made English rugby. From an era of rapid growth at the end of the nineteenth century, through the terrible losses suffered during the First World War and the subsequent ‘rush to rugby’ in the public and grammar schools, and into the periods of disorientation and commercialisation in the 1960s through to the present day, the story of English rugby union is also the story of the making of modern England. Like all the very best writers on sport, Tony Collins uses sport as a prism through which to better understand both culture and society. A ground-breaking work of both social history and sport history, A Social History of English Rugby Union tells a fascinating story of sporting endeavour, masculine identity, imperial ideology, social consciousness and the nature of Englishness.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140136067
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of England written by Asa Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects and gauges of human experience, research in related disciplines is discussed and changes in historical interpretations explained. The author also offers his own, personal, view of social history.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of England written by Asa Briggs and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1985 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cheryl A. Fury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843839538
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social History of English Seamen, 1650-1815 written by Cheryl A. Fury and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of a wide range of new research on many aspects of life at sea in the early modern period.

Author : Keith Wrightson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108210201
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of England, 1500–1750 written by Keith Wrightson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the political, religious, economic and intellectual histories of the period. This volume serves two main purposes. Firstly, it summarises, in an accessible way, the principal findings of forty years of research on English society in this period, providing a comprehensive overview of social and cultural change in an era vital to the development of English social identities. Second, the chapters, by leading experts, also stimulate fresh thinking by not only taking stock of current knowledge but also extending it, identifying problems, proposing fresh interpretations and pointing to unexplored possibilities. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and general readers.

Author : G. Trevelyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781447417514
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Social History - A Survey of Six Centuries - Chaucer to Queen Victoria written by G. Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.