Passengers: Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era Hobson James
Passengers: Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era Hobson James Passengers is a social history of Britain between 1790 and 1840. It was a contradictory age, simultaneously the elegant era of Jane…
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Passengers: Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era Hobson James
Passengers is a social history of Britain between 1790 and 1840. It was a contradictory age, simultaneously the elegant era of Jane Austen and the inspiration for Charles Dickens's work on poverty and injustice. This is the period of the Napoleonic War and of rapid technological change and social tension.
The author covers all aspects of the period-work, law, technology, finance, politics, poverty and crime are the most prominent. 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 inn and the stagecoach were some of the few places that the different classes met and coexisted 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