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Limits of Hope. Hardcover
ISBN 9780195546668 / 0195546660
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987
Used – Very Good. xviii, 317pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw ills. or blue cloth in jacket. Jacket laminate wrinkled; prev owners name on front free endpaper. An innovative social history charting the relationships between the work process, family life and political mobilization. Drawing on letters, petitions and memoirs of Victorian settlers and their wives, it blends social analysis with a vivid depiction of individual experience to produce a moving historical account. Size: 8vo