ENG 445: Prison Literature, Archives + Theory

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Covers the history of Western trade, the rise of the modern labor movement, the evolving status of slavery, the condition and making of the working class, and colonization, and the economic theories that championed and challenged capitalism.
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Search newspaper titles and pamphlets from the collection of Reverend Charles Burney. Coverage includes seventeenth and eighteenth-century British political history, economics and business, literature, advertising, theatre, the press, and more.

The collection charts the history of the development of the press in England and provides invaluable insight into seventeenth and eighteenth century England.