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The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin Modern Classics)by: George Orwell April 26, 2001 Best Selling > Books > Social and Economic History |
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Born and bred in Wigan.I had read 1984 and Animal Farm but had put off reading TRTWP until I was 50.
Orwell writes of the hopelessness of the masses and concludes that they accept their lot because of the "palliatives" of modern technology i.e.cheap clothing (dream of being Greta Garbo or Clark Gable) , alcohol,the movies, radio, the football pools etc. The government massage and manipulate statistics to show unemployment levels and poverty to be a fraction as bad as they really are. The middle-class believed that the poor should be instructed to spend their means tested allowance wisely eating tasteless but healthy food,wholemeal bread,oranges,raw carrots etc and to shun alcohol and tobacco etc. Tell me as anything ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wallby: Anna Funder June 17, 2004 Best Selling > Books > Social and Economic History |
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I picked this up after watching "The Lives of Others." The book is well written, mixing evocative (sometimes over-elaborate) reflections with a much more sparse style when retelling some of the scarcely believable stories of the misery of life in the GDR. Some of her observations are very sharp, such as her objection to items which are still of live interest being put on display in a museum. I thought the ending was disappointing. However, books like this are often nothing more than expanded magazine articles, a charge that cannot be made here. Recommended.
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Francesco's Italyby: Francesco da Mosto June 08, 2006 Best Selling > Books > Social and Economic History |
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This book is stunning! The pictures and beautiful descriptions just make you want to get on an aeroplane and head over to Italy. I really enjoyed the accompanying televsion series but the book is great and written extremely well.
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The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slumby: Sarah Wise June 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Social and Economic History |
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I first picked up on the Old Nichol when researching family history and getting a map of Shoreditch circa 1890 when the areas was being 'cleared'. Curiously, I bought the two maps before and after this time and saw the horrendous labyrinth of streets that made up the Old Nichol and the tidy Arnold Circus that replaced it and still exists today. Little seemed to be known about the Old Nichol until this book (save Arthur Morrisons seminal 'A Child of the Jago' where Jago meant Nichol).
This book paints a good picture of what life was like in the Old Nichol and the events that led to its demolition. Revd Osbourne Jay, who was vicar in the Parish in its latter years is given quite a sympathetic portrayal although in hindsight his motives are a little flawed ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Economics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)by: Partha Dasgupta February 22, 2007 Best Selling > Books > Social and Economic History |
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I have worked my way through a large number of books in the "Very Short Introduction" series.
Most are excellent although a few have been duds. I have also read a fair amount of economics previously. I found that the approach used in this book was rather unusual and made the book ssem rather mediocre to me. It seemed to me that this book tried to find examples that are a bit unusual but may have been better in such a small volume sticking to central concerns. >>More Details |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics)by: Malcolm X, Alex Haley March 01, 2001 Best Selling > Books > Social and Economic History |
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A line towards the end of the book where Malcolm is in his car and another car pulls up besdies him an a white man peers out saying do you mind shaking hands with a white man and his reply is i'll shake hands with any human being.
If this was only the case even in our present time!!! The world might have over clouded the race issue but it still exists out there. Such a shame. >>More Details |
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Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World Warby: Julie Summers September 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Social and Economic History |
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When Julie asked me if she could include my parents' story in Stranger in the House I agreed because I felt strongly that my mother's experiences, like those of tens of thousands of other women, deserved our attention. Julie has been sensitive and thorough in her research and she's done a marvellous job of shedding light on this little known aspect of wartime experiences. There is much we can learn from these stories and it is important, I believe, that each contributor is allowed to speak for themselves. My parents and I were in safe hands.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Arena Books)by: Dee Brown January 03, 1998 Best Selling > Books > Social and Economic History |
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A fantastic book which everybody should read - we owe it to the people who were wiped out. They lost their lives, but the world lost as much - a brilliant culture and people who really appreciated nature and showed enormous wisdom and magnanimity. In the short time they were allowed to survive alongside the white man they sowed the seeds of the ecology movement, which might help to save the planet. So their lives were not in vain - and they gave us Johnny Depp and Cher.
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Veniceby: Jan Morris October 07, 2004 Best Selling > Books > Social and Economic History |
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So declares Jan Morris, famed travel writer and quasi-Venetian. This is a review of the fourth edition of 1993. The book was originally published in 1963.
In her foreword to this fourth edition, Jan Morris says that this is neither a history nor a guide book; "nor is it exactly a report. When I wrote it, in 1960, I thought it was. I was a foreign correspondent then, and I planned this book as a dispatch about contemporary Venice." But instead the book is, according to the author, "a highly subjective, romantic, impressionistic picture less of a city than of an experience." The book is split into three parts: the people, the city (should not this have been first?), and the lagoon, and all is sandwiched by an introduction and a coda that describes arrival and ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The King of Sunlight: How William Lever Cleaned Up the Worldby: Adam Macqueen May 02, 2005 Best Selling > Books > Social and Economic History |
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The premise of this book is the story of a soap company that would eventually become Unilever and its founder and directing mind, William Lever. It doesn't sound promising, but, like many obscure corners of history that have been illuminated by fascinating, lucid and readable biographies and histories, this is the window to a wide and startling vista.
I came to read the book after hearing excerpts of it on BBC Radio 4's `A Good Read'. It sounded interesting in the round, but what really made me pay attention was the detail on Rivington. Rivington is a village in the moorland above Chorley and Bolton. It has medieval tithe barns, a quaint village centre, strange follies and the most amazing terraced gardens, ornamental lake and Roman ruins. As a child I was taken ... Read More: >>More Details |
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