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A Floating Commonwealth : Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860-1930

by Christopher Harvie

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0199655189
ISBN-13 9780199655182
Publisher Oxford University Press
Imprint Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date May 10th, 2012
Print length 336 Pages
Weight 516 grams
Dimensions 23.30 x 15.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification: British & Irish history Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Social & cultural history
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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.
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'' together, Harvie argues, 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 types of railways which opened up the developing world, as well as the institutions of international finance and communications in the age of ''telegrams and anger''. And ultimately, the resources of the Atlantic cities, their shipyards and works, enabled Britain to win 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 Carlyle to James Joyce - although the ultimate outcome, of slump and emigration, would leave enduring problems in the years to come.

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