Port towns and urban cultures : international histories of the waterfront, c.1700--2000 /: international histories of the waterfront, c.1700--2000. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Brad Beaven, Karl Bell and Robert James.
• Editors: Beaven, Brad; Bell, Karl; James, Robert
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors ; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Urban-Maritime Cultures; Representations and Identities; Part I: Urban-Maritime Cultures; Chapter 2: Strangers Ashore: Sailor Identity and Social Conflict in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Cape Town; Bibliography; Chapter 3: 'Hail, Tyneside Lads in Collier Fleets': Song Culture, Sailing and Sailors in North-East England; Sailors and Sailing in Tyneside Song; Robert Gilchrist: Tyneside Sailmaker and 'Broadside Balladeer'; Robert Gilchrist's Maritime Verse; Conclusion Chapter 6: On the Margins of Empire: Antipodean Port Cities and Imperial Culture c. 1880-1939 The Antipodean Port City and the Built Environment; Political Ties and Popular Imperialism c. 1884-1902; Imperial Loyalty Societies; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Encounters on the Waterfront: Negotiating Identities in the Context of Sailortown Culture; Coffee Breaks and Language Barriers: Interaction at Work; Friends and Enemies; Business as Usual; Harbour-Side Pub: 'A Different World'; Disorder and Criminality; Seagulls and Wharf Angels ; Conclusion; Bibliography Part II: Representations and IdentitiesChapter 8: Ports and Pilferers: London's Late Georgian Era Docks as Settings for Evolving Material and Criminal Cultures; Criminal Wealth; Rationalising Trade; Pilfering and the Moral Economy of the Docks; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 9: From Jolly Sailor to Proletarian Jack: The Remaking of Sailortown and the Merchant Seafarer in Victorian London; The Remaking of London's Sailortown; The Remaking of the Merchant Sailor; Conclusion; Bibliography Chapter 10: 'If there's one man that I admire, that man's a British tar': Leisure and Cultural Nation-­Building in a Naval Port Town, c. 1850-1928From the Bawdy to the Respectable: The Royal Navy Sailor as a Cultural Icon; 'Unhealthily Exciting' : Leisure Participation in Plymouth's Sailortown; Appropriating the Royal Navy Sailor as a Popular Cultural Symbol; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 11: The Use of 'Local Colour' and History in Promoting the Identity of Port Cities: The Case of Durban, c.1890s-1950s; Bibliography
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 711/.4; History; Waterfronts -- History; City planning -- History; Cultural landscapes -- History; ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial; City planning; Cultural landscapes; Waterfronts; History -- General; History -- World; History: specific events & topics; General & world history; World history; History -- Social History; Social & cultural history; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137483164; 1137483164; 1137483156; 9781137483157
• Related ISBNs: 9781137483157
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 19, 2016).
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