{"product_id":"passengers","title":"Passengers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Hobson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e Passengers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2021-08-12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Is there Really a Stagecoach History of Britain?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Walking Classes\u003cbr\u003e2 Scandal at the Swan\u003cbr\u003e3 Respectability\u003cbr\u003e4 Bad Education\u003cbr\u003e5 Calculated Charity\u003cbr\u003e6 The Stagecoach Masters\u003cbr\u003e7 The Entrepreneurial Widows\u003cbr\u003e8 Crime in the Coaching Inn\u003cbr\u003e9 Crime On The Road\u003cbr\u003e10 Roads Work\u003cbr\u003e11 Who's on Board Today?\u003cbr\u003e12 The Stagecoach Driver: A Class Act\u003cbr\u003e13 A Georgian Family and their Struggle with Transport\u003cbr\u003e14 Melancholy Events\u003cbr\u003e15 The Stagecoach v the Law\u003cbr\u003e16 Hell for Horses\u003cbr\u003e17 A Journey up the Great North Road\u003cbr\u003e18 Moving the Mail\u003cbr\u003e19 Attacked by a Lioness\u003cbr\u003e20 The Brighton Line\u003cbr\u003e21 Inn Hospitality\u003cbr\u003e22 Poor Women and their Work\u003cbr\u003e23 New Times, New Time and New Timing\u003cbr\u003e24 First with the News\u003cbr\u003e25 The Stagecoach Defeats the Steam Engine\u003cbr\u003e26 The Steam Engine Defeats The Stagecoach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Immortality via Nostalgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781558225\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 9.25 Inches, Length: 6.25 Inches, Weight: 1.543235834 Pounds, Width: 1 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Hobson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862750855475,"sku":"9781781558225","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/8282873482822.jpg?v=1754183970","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/passengers","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}