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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 of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to
twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this
important collection explore two key themes; the nature and
character of 'sailortown' culture and port-town life, and the
representations of port towns that were forged both within and
beyond urban-maritime communities. The book's exploration of port
town identities and cultures, and its use of a rich array of
methodological approaches and cultural artefacts, will make it of
great interest to both urban and maritime historians. It also
represents a major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary
field of coastal studies.
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 of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to
twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this
important collection explore two key themes; the nature and
character of 'sailortown' culture and port-town life, and the
representations of port towns that were forged both within and
beyond urban-maritime communities. The book's exploration of port
town identities and cultures, and its use of a rich array of
methodological approaches and cultural artefacts, will make it of
great interest to both urban and maritime historians. It also
represents a major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary
field of coastal studies.
The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from
the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also
consistently provoked controversy among historians. This book
offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was
disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew
between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Beaven
shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped
through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial
identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but
was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a
locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from
three representative English cities. These case studies are
considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current
historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those
interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural
history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history.
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The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from
the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also
consistently provoked controversy among historians. This book
offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was
disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew
between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Beaven
shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped
through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial
identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but
was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a
locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from
three representative English cities. These case studies are
considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current
historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those
interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural
history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history.
-- .
From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable
crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class
male leisure proved to be a contentious issue for contemporary
observers. For middle-class social reformers from across the
political spectrum, the spectacle of popular leisure offered a view
of working-class habits, and a means by which lifestyles and
behaviour could be assessed. For the mid-Victorians, gingerly
stepping into a new mass democratic age, the desire to create a
bond between the recently enfranchised male worker and the nation
was more important than ever. This trend continued as those in
governance perceived that 'good' leisure and citizenship could fend
off challenges to social stability such as imperial decline, the
mass degenerate city, hooliganism, civic and voter apathy and
fascism. Thus, between 1850 and 1945 the issue of male leisure
became enmeshed with changing contemporary debates on the
encroaching mass society and its implications for good citizenry.
Working-class culture has often been depicted as an atomised and
fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation.
Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this
book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places
social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a
remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850
and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic
contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw from a
tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that
was both class and gender exclusive. This lively and readable book
draws from fascinating accounts from those who participated in and
observed contemporary popular leisure making it of importance to
students and teachers of social history, popular culture, urban
history, historical geography, historical sociology and cultural
studies. -- .
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