Port towns and urban cultures : international histories of the waterfront, c. 1700-2000 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Beaven, Brad (Editor), Bell, Karl, 1971- (Editor), James, Robert, 1968- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Subjects:	Port cities > Social aspects > History. Waterfronts > Social aspects > History.

Table of Contents:

Strangers ashore : sailor identity and social conflict in mid-eighteenth-century Cape Town / Nigel Worden
"Hail, Tyneside lads in collier fleets" : song culture, sailing and sailors in north-east England / Paul Gilchrist
"They are without Christ and without hope" : "heathenism", popular religion, and supernatural belief in Portsmouth's maritime community, c. 1851-1901 / Karl Bell
Hey sailor, looking for trouble? : violence, drunkenness and disorder in a Swedish port town : Gothenburg 1920 / Tomas Nilson
On the margins of empire : Antipodean port cities and Imperial culture, c. 1880-1939 / John Griffiths
Encounters on the waterfront : negotiating identities in the context of sailortown culture / Tytti Steel
Ports and pilferers : London's late Georgian era docks as settings for evolving material and criminal cultures / William M. Taylor
From jolly sailor to proletarian Jack : the remaking of Sailortown and the merchant seafarer in Victorian London / Brad Beaven
"If there's one man that I admire, that man's a British tar" : leisure and cultural nation-building in a naval port town, c. 1850-1928 / Robert James
The use of "local colour" and history in promoting the identity of port cities : the case of Durban, c. 1890s-1950s / Vivian Bickford-Smith
To be a sailor's wife : ideals and images of the twentieth-century seafarer's wife in the Åland Islands / Hanna Hagmark-Cooper
Hull, fishing and the life and death of trawlertown : living the spaces of a trawling port-city / Jo Byrne
Doing urban history in the coastal zone / Isaac Land.