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archival research methods
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Author_John Host
bourgeois
Capitalist Power Relations
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Chartist Leaders
Competing Truth Claims
crossick
Educated Common Sense
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geoffrey
hegemony
historiography theory
independence
Kentish London
Labour Aristocracy
Labour Aristocracy Thesis
Labour Aristocrats
Labour Leaders
Marianne Farningham
Material Consideration
mid-nineteenth century British labour debate
mid-victorian
mid-Victorian Period
mid-Victorian Radicalism
Middle Class Hegemony
narrative construction
period
political contingency
Populist Mentality
Prevailing Power Relations
respectable
Respectable Independence
Revolutionary Class Consciousness
school
social class analysis
sunday
Thatcherite Discourse
witness testimony evidence
Working Class Empowerment
Working Class Respectability
Working Men
Working People
Younger Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415186742
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 2004. In Victorian Labour History: Experience, Identity and the Politics of Representation, John Host addresses liberal, Marxist and postmodernist historiography on Victorian working people to question the special status of historical knowledge. The central focus of this study is a debate about mid-Victorian social stability, a condition conventionally equated with popular acceptance of the social order. Host does not join the debate but takes it as his object of analysis, deconstructing the notion of stability and the analyses that purport to explain it. In particular, he takes issue with historical evidence, noting the different possibilities for meaning that it allows and the speculative character of the narratives to which it is adduced. Host examines an extensive range of archival material to illustrate the ambiguity of the historical field, the rhetorical strategies through which the illusion of its unity is created, and the ultimately fictive quality of historical narrative. He then explores the political contingency of the works he addresses and the political consequences of representing them as true.
John Host is Associate Lecturer in History and Sociology at the Centre for Aboriginal Programmes, The University of Western Australia.
