Description
About the Author
Susan Whyman is an independent historian, formerly of Princeton University, where she received both MA and PhD degrees. Whyman lectures and publishes widely, both in England and the US, on British culture. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers, 1660-1800, winner of the 2010 Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars; Sociability and Power: The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys, nominated for the History Today Prize; and Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay's Trivia (1716), co-edited with Clare Brant (all published by Oxford University Press).
Reviews
...but the detailed analysis...presents a wonderful picture... * Susan E. Whyman, The American Historical Review *
One of Whyman's strengths across this volume is her close engagement with archival material. The text is, as such, multi-voiced-we can engage with Hutton as public andprivate figure but also with a range of primary evidence, whether in his sister's letters, or the testimony, and life-histories, of others who thrived in Birmingham's entrepreneurial atmosphere. * Lynda Mugglestone, Midland History *
Whyman makes a strong argument for the importance of local culture and individual agency in facilitating British industrialization, contending that it was people like Hutton and towns like Birmingham that made industrialization possible ... her work effectively reverses the assumptions guiding many social and micro-histories that focus on identifying representative past ideas, values, and experiences. * Christopher Ferguson, Journal of British Studies *
A fascinating account. * Hannah Barker, History Today, Best History Books 2018 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198797838
Author Susan E. Whyman
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 163mm * 19mm