{"product_id":"9780197267806-servants-abroad","title":"Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798: 67 (Records of Social and Economic History","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTravel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eServants Abroad\u003c\/em\u003e presents the journals of four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the eighteenth century. With a full introduction, these texts overturn the standard view of the 'Grand Tour' by revealing the experiences and impressions of the majority who travelled in service. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eServants Abroad\u003c\/em\u003e presents manuscript journals by four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century, a period that tends to be seen as the golden age of a quintessentially aristocratic form of travel, the 'Grand Tour'. Yet if each wealthy traveller brought at least one employee, as seems a safe estimate, then more people knew this kind of travel as a period of work than as a gentlemanly rite of passage or an early form of tourism. For the first time, this volume makes first-hand accounts by members of this majority available for research and teaching. With a full introduction and extensive annotations, these texts upend the standard view of eighteenth-century travel from Britain to continental Europe, casting the 'Grand Tour' as an important episode in transnational labour history, and taking the study of working-class life writing in an exciting new direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55862372172150,"sku":"9780197267806","price":187.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35457860.jpg?v=1753310550","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780197267806-servants-abroad","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}