An edition of A floating commonwealth (2008)

A floating commonwealth

politics, culture, and technology on Britain's Atlantic coast, 1860-1930

A floating commonwealth
Christopher Harvie, Christophe ...
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An edition of A floating commonwealth (2008)

A floating commonwealth

politics, culture, and technology on Britain's Atlantic coast, 1860-1930

"Christopher Harvie offers a new portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain by focusing on the sea as connector, not barrier. Atlantic and 'inland sea' - from Cornwall to the Clyde - Harvie argues, together created a 'floating commonwealth' of port cities and their hinterlands whose interaction, both with one another and with nationalist and imperial politics, created an intense political and cultural synergy. At a technical level, this produced the freight steamer and the efficient new railways which opened up the developing world, as well as the institutions of international finance and communications in the age of 'telegrams and anger'. Ultimately, the resources of the Atlantic cities, their shipyards and engineering works, enabled Britain to withstand the test of the First World War." "Meanwhile, as Harvie shows, the continuous attempt to make sense of an ever-changing material reality also stimulated the discourses on which social criticism and literary modernism were based, from Thomas Carlyle to James Joyce, although the ultimate outcome - revolt in Ireland, slump and emigration - would leave enduring problems in the years to come."--Jacket.

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English
Pages
319

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
941.081
Library of Congress
DA560 .H337 2008, DA550

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
319

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL16365527M
ISBN 13
9780198227830
LCCN
2007052437
OCLC/WorldCat
185095687
LibraryThing
9409501
Goodreads
3918307

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Work ID
OL1898733W

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