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  • The devil’s highway

    Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c.1850-1900

    de Brad Beaven ...
    Series series Studies in Popular Culture
    Between 1850 and 1900, Ratcliffe Highway was the pulse of maritime London. Sailors from every corner of the globe found solace, and sometimes trouble, in this bustling district. However, for social investigators, it was a place of fascination and fear as it harboured chaotic and dangerous ‘exotic’ communities. Sailortowns were transient, cosmopolitan and working class in character and provide us ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Port Towns and Urban Cultures

    International Histories of the Waterfront, c.1700—2000

    Edición de Brad Beaven, Karl Bell, Robert James ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book, the product of international scholarship, offers innovative and challenging perspectives on the cultural histories ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

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  • Green Unpleasant Land

    de Corinne Fowler ...
    Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Last Great Quest

    Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice

    de Max Jones ...
    Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and highest continent on Earth to travel to the South Pole. Five men battled through unimaginably harsh conditions only to find the Norwegian flag had been planted at the Pole just weeks before. Captain ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Storied Ground

    Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity

    de Paul Readman ...
    People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance in shaping English national identity amid the transformations of modernity. The book takes us from the fells of the Lake District to the uplands of Northumberland; from the streetscapes of ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Grenfell of Labrador

    A Biography

    de Ronald Rompkey ...
    When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or how they lived - a few weeks on the Labrador coast changed that. Struck by both the rugged beauty of the place and the difficulties faced by those who lived there, Grenfell devoted the rest of his life to improving theirs. At first ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Real Jim Hawkins

    Ships' Boys in the Georgian Navy

    de Roland Pietsch ...
    Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy. This groundbreaking new work is a study of the origins, life and culture of the boys of the Georgian ... Leer más

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  • The Coffin Ship

    Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine

    de Cian T. McMahon ...
    Series Libro 4 - The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyA vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great FamineThe standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Co... ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Beyond the Tower: A History of East London

    de Dr. John Marriott ...
    From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, was the home to Shakespeare's first theater and to the early stirrings of a mass labor movement; it has also traditionally been seen as a place of darkness and despair, where Jack the ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Victorian Urban Settings

    Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts

    Edición de Debra N. Mancoff, D.J. Trela ...
    Series series Literature and Society in Victorian Britain
    This volume of 13 original interdisciplinary essays surveys the relationship of Victorian works and the urban experience that shaped them. Each essay addresses how the selection or rejection of an urban setting provide the context for a representative product of Victorian art or culture. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Globish

    How English Became the World's Language

    de Robert McCrum ...
    “A fascinating study not only of the roots and growth of our own language but of its future.”—Bloomsbury ReviewIt seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. In this provocative new look at the course of empire, Robert McCrum shows how the language ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Flight from Famine

    The Coming of the Irish to Canada

    de Donald MacKay ...
    One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman ... Leer más

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