Change in the Village (Summarized Edition) Enriched edition. A 19th-century English village amid industrialization: craftsmanship fades, traditions strain, and the rhythms of rural life change
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Erscheinungsdatum
10.01.2026
Herausgeber
Quickie ClassicsVerlag
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973 KB
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Englisch
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8596547884125
Change in the Village is a meticulous anatomy of an English parish in the throes of modernity. In lucid, restrained prose, Sturt tracks how wage relations, cottage tenure, parish governance, schooling, and the seasonal tempo of fieldwork are remade by markets, speculative building, and new transport. Blending ethnographic observation with documentary exactitude, he crafts an elegy unsweetened by nostalgia. Standing between Cobbett and Jefferies and the emergent social sciences, the book turns local detail into a lens on national change. George Sturt, a Surrey wheelwright turned writer (often signing as George Bourne), inherited his family shop and worked at the bench while keeping notebooks on village life. Intimacy with tools, timber, and labourers gave him a practical, humane vantage, and earlier portraits of working men honed his ear for speech and custom. Pressures that unsettled his own trade supplied both urgency and evidence for this inquiry. Historians of modern Britain, students of rural literature, and thoughtful general readers will find a bracing, indispensable study here. As microhistory and moral testimony, Change in the Village rewards slow reading and invites comparison across upheavals, including our own.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
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