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Passengers - Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era (Hardcover)
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Passengers - Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era (Hardcover)
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‘Passengers’ is a social history of Britain between 1790 and
1840. This is the period of the Napoleonic War and of rapid
technological change and social tension. It was a contradictory
age, simultaneously the elegant era of Jane Austen and the
inspiration for Charles Dickens’s work on poverty and injustice.
The book has an initial focus on transport and hospitality, but it
is also a wider portrait of this important but neglected period of
British history. The author covers all aspects of the period-work,
law, technology, finance, politics, poverty and crime are the most
prominent. The inn and the stagecoach were some of the few places
that the different classes met and co-existed in a country that was
stratified and deferential. The poor served the transport and
hospitality system, the middle classes used it and the ruling
classes profited from it. The life of women is an important part of
this book; they worked at levels in the travel and hospitality
industries.This is everybody’s story, an exposition of real
places and real people in a society that was ‘on the move’, in
all senses of the phrase.
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