The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the PresentHarperPress, 2006 - 1617 pages "This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 522
... middle of the nineteenth century were still barely within the reach of the middle class . In England mechanical institutes and local cultural societies organised concerts and other cultural activities regularly . In 1855 August Manns ...
... middle of the nineteenth century were still barely within the reach of the middle class . In England mechanical institutes and local cultural societies organised concerts and other cultural activities regularly . In 1855 August Manns ...
Page 1069
... middle- and upper - middle - class women , dealing largely with fashion and household management ( see pages 324-6 ) . The expansion of the lower - middle - class and working - class readership , and the growth in the number of ...
... middle- and upper - middle - class women , dealing largely with fashion and household management ( see pages 324-6 ) . The expansion of the lower - middle - class and working - class readership , and the growth in the number of ...
Page 1093
... middle - class taste . In Great Britain the interwar years produced well - made plays by masters of the craft such ... middle classes who were at the centre of their work . This was theatre of the middle classes , by the middle classes ...
... middle - class taste . In Great Britain the interwar years produced well - made plays by masters of the craft such ... middle classes who were at the centre of their work . This was theatre of the middle classes , by the middle classes ...
Contents
The PreConditions Sources of Cultural Expansion | 3 |
Triumphant Languages | 21 |
Publishing | 41 |
Copyright | |
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