When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book "The Uses of Literacy", Britain was undergoing huge social...(展开全部)

When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book "The Uses of Literacy", Britain was undergoing huge social...(展开全部)

理查德•霍加特（Richard Hoggart，1918—2014），英国学者，主要治学领域为社会学、英语文学和文化研究，曾任伯明翰大学现代英语文学教授、伦敦大学戈德史密斯学院院长等职，也曾担任联合国教科文组织总干事助理。

理查德•霍加特（Richard Hoggart，1918—2014），英国学者，主要治学领域为社会学、英语文学和文化研究，曾任伯明翰大学现代英语文学教授、伦敦大学戈德史密斯学院院长等职，也曾担任联合国教科文组织总干事助理。

"The UQP Creative Economy + Innovation Culture" series showcases fresh research approaches to global creative thinking, enterprise and innovation. The series links creative and digital media fields to law, education, business and technology. Online social networks, user-created content and participatory media are often still ignored by professionals, denounced in the press and ...(展开全部)

"The UQP Creative Economy + Innovation Culture" series showcases fresh research approaches to global creative thinking, enterprise and innovation. The series links creative and digital media fields to law, education, business and technology. Online social networks, user-created content and participatory media are often still ignored by professionals, denounced in the press and ...(展开全部)

"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most important study of those days since the classic work of the Hammonds."-- Commentary "Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination ...(展开全部)

英国著名历史学家，作家，社会主义者，和平主义运动家。曾参加过英国共产党，在英国新左派运动中担任重要角色，投身欧洲反核运动等和平反战运动。以研究18世纪至19世纪的英国历史而闻名，代表作有《英国工人阶级的形成》、《理论的贫穷》、《烛下夜话》、《辉格党与猎人》、《公众习俗》等。

This is a book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality.

Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workers - depicting overcrowded housin...(展开全部)