Author: Phil Hubbard
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137521538
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a familiar sight in many British cities. The book argues that the policies deemed necessary to revive the fortunes of high streets are often thinly-veiled attacks on the tastes and cultures of the working class. Policy-makers often promote boutiques, art galleries and upmarket cafés at the expense of some of the outlets frequented by less affluent populations, including betting shops, fast food takeaways, discount stores and bargain booze outlets. Highlighting the social and cultural roles that so-called 'dying' high streets continue to play in the lives of working class and disadvantaged populations, this book provides a powerful argument against retail gentrification, and a timely analysis of class conflict in austerity Britain. It will be of great interest to scholars of geography, social policy and cultural studies.
The Battle for the High Street
Author: Phil Hubbard
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137521538
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a familiar sight in many British cities. The book argues that the policies deemed necessary to revive the fortunes of high streets are often thinly-veiled attacks on the tastes and cultures of the working class. Policy-makers often promote boutiques, art galleries and upmarket cafés at the expense of some of the outlets frequented by less affluent populations, including betting shops, fast food takeaways, discount stores and bargain booze outlets. Highlighting the social and cultural roles that so-called 'dying' high streets continue to play in the lives of working class and disadvantaged populations, this book provides a powerful argument against retail gentrification, and a timely analysis of class conflict in austerity Britain. It will be of great interest to scholars of geography, social policy and cultural studies.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137521538
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a familiar sight in many British cities. The book argues that the policies deemed necessary to revive the fortunes of high streets are often thinly-veiled attacks on the tastes and cultures of the working class. Policy-makers often promote boutiques, art galleries and upmarket cafés at the expense of some of the outlets frequented by less affluent populations, including betting shops, fast food takeaways, discount stores and bargain booze outlets. Highlighting the social and cultural roles that so-called 'dying' high streets continue to play in the lives of working class and disadvantaged populations, this book provides a powerful argument against retail gentrification, and a timely analysis of class conflict in austerity Britain. It will be of great interest to scholars of geography, social policy and cultural studies.
The Anecdotage of Glasgow
Author: Robert Alison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire, and the City and Diocese of Lincoln
Author: William White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Valuable reference book, please ask at library issue desk.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Valuable reference book, please ask at library issue desk.
Civil War Battlefields
Author: David J. Eicher
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1589791819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This new edition of a popular travel guide provides a detailed accurate and modern approach to touring these national treasures.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1589791819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This new edition of a popular travel guide provides a detailed accurate and modern approach to touring these national treasures.
Battle for Bed-Stuy
Author: Michael Woodsworth
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674545060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674545060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.
Around Battle Through Time
Author: Nathan Dylan Goodwin
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445626578
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Battle has changed and developed over the last century
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445626578
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Battle has changed and developed over the last century
Time Out Kent & Sussex
Author: Daniel Neilson
Publisher: Time Out Guides
ISBN: 1846702399
Category : Kent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Kent and Sussex are popular counties - to live in and to visit, whether on a day-trip or on a longer holiday. This title includes what you need to know about these popular counties, organised by area and clearly mapped.
Publisher: Time Out Guides
ISBN: 1846702399
Category : Kent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Kent and Sussex are popular counties - to live in and to visit, whether on a day-trip or on a longer holiday. This title includes what you need to know about these popular counties, organised by area and clearly mapped.
The Face of Battle
Author: John Keegan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440673993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle -- a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud at the battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. The Face of Battle is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Mask of Command: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440673993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle -- a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud at the battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. The Face of Battle is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Mask of Command: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.
Village Walks in Britain
Author: Automobile Association (Great Britain)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315028
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Here are short tours--most take a half-hour to one or two hours--of 165 villages of unusual interest, beauty, and charm.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315028
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Here are short tours--most take a half-hour to one or two hours--of 165 villages of unusual interest, beauty, and charm.
England
Author: Timothy Darvill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192841018
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Travelling around England is in many senses a journey back in time. On all sides, and sometimes even under the road or footpath itself, there are fragments of the ancient past side by side with the clutter of the modern world. Medieval villages, castles, ancient churches, and Roman villas arecommonplace and take us back to the time of Christ. Far older, yet equally abundant, are the barrows, hillforts, stone circles, camps, standing stones, trackways, and other relics of prehistoric times that have survived for several thousand years.This Guide is all about these ancient remains: the prehistoric, Roman, and medieval sites which date from the time between the first appearance of people in what we now call England during the last Ice Age and the end of medieval times around 1600 AD.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192841018
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Travelling around England is in many senses a journey back in time. On all sides, and sometimes even under the road or footpath itself, there are fragments of the ancient past side by side with the clutter of the modern world. Medieval villages, castles, ancient churches, and Roman villas arecommonplace and take us back to the time of Christ. Far older, yet equally abundant, are the barrows, hillforts, stone circles, camps, standing stones, trackways, and other relics of prehistoric times that have survived for several thousand years.This Guide is all about these ancient remains: the prehistoric, Roman, and medieval sites which date from the time between the first appearance of people in what we now call England during the last Ice Age and the end of medieval times around 1600 AD.