Passengers Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era

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 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 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.

ISBN:	9781781558225
Publisher:	Fonthill Media
Imprint:	Fonthill Media
Published date:	20 May 2021
Language:	English
Number of pages:	192
Weight:	456g
Height:	163mm
Width:	242mm
Spine width:	22mm

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