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Useful Toil

Useful Toil

John Burnett / Proffessor John Burnett

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Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1994
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9780415103992
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Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary’ people of the nineteenth century. Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people.

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