Of What Use Are Common People

Author : Kit de Waal
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783527471
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common People written by Kit de Waal and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and sorrow, the solidarity and the differences, the everyday wisdom and poetry of the woman at the bus stop, the waiter, the hairdresser. Here, Kit de Waal brings together thirty-three established and emerging writers who invite you to experience the world through their eyes, their voices loud and clear as they reclaim and redefine what it means to be working class. Features original pieces from Damian Barr, Malorie Blackman, Lisa Blower, Jill Dawson, Louise Doughty, Stuart Maconie, Chris McCrudden, Lisa McInerney, Paul McVeigh, Daljit Nagra, Dave O’Brien, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Anita Sethi, Tony Walsh, Alex Wheatle and more.

Author : Paul Long
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443802980
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only in the Common People written by Paul Long and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “corrupt and moronic though the common people are seemingly becoming ... only in the common people can the true work be rooted, the true tradition rediscovered and re-informed” Charles Parker, BBC Radio Producer 1959. In 1958, in his best-selling book Culture and Society, Raymond Williams identified working-class culture as ‘a key issue in our own time’. Why this happened and how this subject was thought about and acted upon is the focus of this book. Paul Long investigates a variety of projects and practices that were designed to describe, validate, reclaim, rejuvenate or generate ‘authentic’ working-class culture as part of the re-imagining of Britishness in the context of the post-war settlement. Detailed case studies cover the wartime cultural activities of CEMA – the forerunner of the Arts Council - the Folk Revival, the impact of Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy, broadcasting and the radio work of Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, the roots of modern arts festivals in Arnold Wesker’s Centre 42 project as well as the impact of progressive education on children’s writing and the politics of the English language. ‘Only in the Common People: The Aesthetics of Class in Post-War Britain’ examines the assumptions, idealism and prejudices behind these projects and the terms of class as ‘the preoccupation of a generation’. This approach offers a historicisation of the broader ideas and debates that informed the development of the New Left and British social history and cultural theory, offering an understanding of the rise of respect for ‘the common man’.

Author : Alison Light
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633094X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common People written by Alison Light and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 2014 by the Penguin Group"--Title page verso.

Author : Frank Frost Abbott
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common People of Ancient Rome written by Frank Frost Abbott and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical novel by the American classical scholar, Frank Frost Abbot. It deals with the lives of the Roman common people, their language and literature, their occupations and amusements, and with their social, political and economic conditions. We are interested in the common people of Rome because they made the Roman Empire what it was. They carried the Roman standards to the Euphrates and the Atlantic: they lived abroad as traders, farmer and soldiers to Romanize the provinces. Or they stayed at home, working in different professions to supply the needs of the capital.

Author : Frank Frost Abbott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351340832
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revival: The Common People of Ancient Rome (1911) written by Frank Frost Abbott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, like the volume on "Society and Politics in Ancient Rome," deals with the life of the common people, with their language and literature, their occupations and amusements, and with their social, political, and economic conditions. We are interested in the common people of Rome because they made the Roman Empire what it was. They carried the Roman standards to the Euphrates and the Atlantic; they lived abroad as traders, farmers, and soldiers to hold and Romanize the provinces, or they stayed at home, working as carpenters, masons, or bakers, to supply the daily needs of the capital. The other side of the subject which has engaged the attention of the author in studying these topics has been the many points of similarity which arise between ancient and modern conditions, and between the problems which the Roman faced and those which confront us.

Author : Ronald Suleski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004361030
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life for the Common People of China, 1850 to 1950 written by Ronald Suleski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting book, Ronald Suleski introduces daily life for the common people of China in the century from 1850 to 1950. They were semi-literate, yet they have left us written accounts of their hopes, fears, and values. They have left us the hand-written manuscripts (chaoben 抄本) now flooding the antiques markets in China. These documents represent a new and heretofore overlooked category of historical sources. Suleski gives a detailed explanation of the interaction of chaoben with the lives of the people. He offers examples of why they were so important to the poor laboring masses: people wanted horoscopes predicting their future, information about the ghosts causing them headaches, a few written words to help them trade in the rural markets, and many more examples are given. The book contains a special appendix giving the first complete translation into English of a chaoben describing the ghosts and goblins that bedeviled the poor working classes.

Author : Heinrich Ewald Buchholz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of what Use are Common People? written by Heinrich Ewald Buchholz and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Surendrhananda
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456736604
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Path to Common People’S Breathing, Postures, Relaxation and Concentration written by Surendrhananda and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Path to Common Peoples Breathing, Postures, Relaxation and Concentration is a book about the Science of Yoga. We have quite a number of books about Yoga and Spirituality. His is one born from his inner self-discovery; that is why there is the urge, with all humility, non-assertion or didacticism, to share his experience to others. The book expounds for our hectic world with all its distress and woes the healing balm of proper breathing, relaxation and other benefits as the little suggests. Our mind, body and soul complex can then be better refreshed and re-energised. The book is a useful guide for the proper and true maintenance of mental and physical health. The approach is both practical and positive. Ours is a face-paced one with people leading a hectic life. For all our technological so-called progress, what do we see around us? A world of distressed and woes! This book has much to offer in a therapeutic way the path to a lesser degree from our anxiety and emotional disorders. With the proper yogic techniques advocated here; we can enlarge and deepen our spiritual inadequacy, so rampant today. Here is a book with the denunciation of a too much materialistic and dehumanizing world and the annunciation of genuine happiness, true liberation and bliss!

Author : Jacques Bidet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000962318
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Ecology of Common People written by Jacques Bidet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social domination, whether they are based on class, gender or nation. If this is the case, then it follows that ecological struggle and social struggle are one and the same thing. The approach is inspired by Marx’s theory, as revisited through Bourdieu and Foucault, Rawls and Habermas, and Ostrom and Wallerstein. Based on a new concept, that of “metastructure” which defines the relationship between the structural and the symbolic, it confronts contemporary debates on class, gender andcoloniality, as well as on the state, the nation and the World-System. Global social-ecological destruction is thus analysed on three registers: that of capital, which produces for profit; that of (supposed) competent authority, which produces to produce; and that of the nation, which produces to conquer. Consumerism follows from productivism, not the other way around. The question of need takes precedence over that of desire. This metastructural configuration poses the imperative constantly renewed to counter the blind logic of capital with a rational logic of organisation, and, at the same time, to counter the logic of the organisers through a democratic discursive logic. This latter is the recourse of common people. The Global South is on the front line of this struggle; and women’s struggle bears its own decisive ecological impulse.

Author : James E. Frazier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 0759639930
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformation of a Common Man written by James E. Frazier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-07-29 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Time Beyond all time, he came. From the misty-fire of Light and Sound, he descended into Form. I AM, I AM, his name thundered through the infinite void. Demons stirred. Ancient gods of the earth, and angels of heaven awoke to peer through misty veils of eternity. The time of reaping had come to God's last creation, to man on earth, to the blue-white world of water, to the Garden planet. Shining angels shook moist, golden wings. Demons rattled dry curses from leathery throats. Giants, sylphs and avatars all wanted in the game. The time has come again for the Host. From the white-haired Old Man flowed a joyous song for all to hear, "Let the Play of Life begin. Let the Play of Life begin."