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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 May 2011
      02 November 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511560880
      9780521457712
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511560880
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.625kg, 376 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, British History after 1450, History, Anthropology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture (19)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, British History after 1450, History, Anthropology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture (19)
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    In l750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by l9l4 England, together with a handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in history achieved a nominally literate society. This book seeks to understand how and why literacy spread into every corner of English society, and what impact it had on the lives and minds of the common people.

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    ‘David Vincent’s history of the teaching of reading and writing, and its cultural implications, shows how, once you take the winning of literacy as a serious issue, it opens up new perspectives on a whole series of major themes. His topics range from family relationships and social mobility, through politics and election broadsides, to the cultural influences of literacy on the working-class generation before that of Richard Hoggart.’

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    ‘This is an ambitious, scholarly and fascinating book of interest not only to specialists and historians but also to a wider public.’

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

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