The Letters of Richard Cobden
The Letters of Richard Cobden

Author: Richard Cobden

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-11-22

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 0199211957

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The first of four volumes, this book provides the first critical edition of Richard Cobden's letters, providing a unique insight into the career of one of Britain's leading nineteenth-century politicians. Drawing on material from Britain, Europe, and the United States, the letters are accompanied by notes, and an introduction explaining the unusual history of the letters and re-assessing Cobden's importance in their light.

Constructing Industrial Pasts
Constructing Industrial Pasts

Author: Stefan Berger

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2019-09-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1789202914

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Since the 1960s, nations across the “developed world” have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization. In regions in which previously dominant industries faced crises or have disappeared altogether, industrial heritage offers a fascinating window into the phenomenon’s cultural dimensions. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches and straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.