Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out [Repost]

Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out by Gordon Thompson


English | Sep. 10, 2008 | ISBN: 0195333187 | 360 Pages | PDF | 2.79 MB

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and numerous other groups put Britain at the center of the modern musical map. Please Please Me offers an insider"s view of the British pop-music recording industry during the seminal period of 1956 to 1968, based on personal recollections, contemporary accounts, and all relevant data that situate this scene in the economic, political, and social context of postwar Britain. Author Gordon Thompson weaves issues of class, age, professional status, gender, and ethnicity into his narrative, beginning with the rise of British beat groups and the emergence of teenagers as consumers in postwar Britain, and moving into the competition between performers and the recording industry for control over the music. He interviews musicians, songwriters, music directors, and producers and engineers who worked with the best-known performers of the era. Drawing his interpretation of the processes at work during this musical revolution into a wider context, Thompson unravels the musical change and innovation of the time with an eye on understanding what traces individuals leave in the musical and recording process.

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As If an Enemy"s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (Repost)

As If an Enemy"s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution By Richard Archer


2010 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0195382471 | PDF | 3 MB

In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. As If an Enemy"s Country is Richard Archer"s gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied town.


Bringing colonial Boston to life, Archer deftly moves between the governor"s mansion and cobblestoned back-alleys as he traces the origins of the colonists" conflict with Britain. He reveals the maneuvering of colonial political leaders such as Governor Francis Bernard, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson, and James Otis Jr. as they responded to London"s new policies, and he evokes the outrage many Bostonians felt towards Parliament and its local representatives.


Archer captures the popular mobilization under the leadership of John Hancock and Samuel Adams that met the oppressive imperial measures—most notably the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act—with demonstrations, Liberty Trees, violence, and non-importation agreements. When the British government decided to garrison Boston with troops, it posed a shocking challenge to the people of Massachusetts. The city was flooded with troops; almost immediately, tempers flared and violent conflicts broke out. Archer"s vivid tale culminates in the swirling tragedy of the Boston Massacre and its aftermath, including the trial and exoneration of the British troops involved.


A thrilling and original work of history, As If an Enemy"s Country tells the riveting story of what made the Boston townspeople, and with them other colonists, turn toward revolution.

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Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution (repost)

Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution by Jane Humphries


English | 24 Jun. 2010 | ISBN: 0521847567 | 454 Pages | PDF | MB

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.

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