Author: Christopher Harvie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198227833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This is a new portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain, focusing on the sea as connector, not barrier. It argues that the port cities and their hinterlands formed a 'floating commonwealth' whose interaction with one another and with nationalist and imperial politics created an intense political and cultural synergy.