Nearly Out of Heart and Hope: The Puzzle of a Colonial Labourer's Diary

Language: English

Published by Auckland University Press, 1995

1869401182 / 9781869401184

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275 pages. Cover slightly worn This original and thought-provoking book is based on the 800,000-word diary of J ames Cox, an itinerant laborer living in New Zealand between 1880 and 1925. Cox' s diary is a rare record of the daily life of a permanent member of the colonial working class - nothing like it exists in a New Zealand archive and little else where. Rather than reproducing selections of the somewhat down-to-earth diary en tries, Fairburn uses it more interestingly, taking the life of this obscure and unimportant man to explore in novel and ambitious ways some issues in writing an d understanding nineteenth-century New Zealand history, colonial societies and w orking-class experience.

Title
Nearly Out of Heart and Hope: The Puzzle of a Colonial Labourer's Diary
Author
Miles Fairburn
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Publication year
1995
Condition
Good
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
1869401182
ISBN 13
9781869401184
Dimensions
22.9cm x 2.5cm x 15.2cm
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