03642nam 22007092u 450 991083033660332120170815114837.01-281-32265-297866113226560-470-70723-20-470-75225-40-470-75224-6(CKB)1000000000414248(EBL)351157(OCoLC)476170849(SSID)ssj0000161898(PQKBManifestationID)11149492(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161898(PQKBWorkID)10200283(PQKB)10390545(PPN)225729911(EXLCZ)99100000000041424820100913d2007|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrGeographies of British Modernity[electronic resource] Space and Society in the Twentieth CenturyChichester John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.20071 online resource (281 p.)RGS-IBG Book SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-631-23500-0 Geographies of British Modernity: Space and Society in the Twentieth Century; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 Historical Geographies of British Modernity; Part I Surveying British Modernity; Chapter 2 A Century of Progress? Inequalities in British Society, 1901–2000; Chapter 3 The Conservative Century? Geography and Conservative Electoral Success during the Twentieth Century; Chapter 4 Mobility in the Twentieth Century: Substituting Commuting for Migration?Chapter 5 Qualifying the Evidence: Perceptions of Rural Change in Britain in the Second Half of the Twentieth CenturyPart II Sites of British Modernity; Chapter 6 'A Power for Good or Evil': Geographies of the M1 in Late Fifties Britain; Chapter 7 A New England: Landscape, Exhibition and Remaking Industrial Space in the 1930s; Chapter 8 A Man's World? Masculinity and Metropolitan Modernity at Simpson Piccadilly; Chapter 9 Mosques, Temples and Gurdwaras: New Sites of Religion in Twentieth-CenThis volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding modern Britain.:.; The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain.; Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain.; Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century.; Combines economic, political, social and cultural geographies.; DemonRGS-IBG Book SeriesHuman geographyGeography / TravelHuman geographyGreat BritainGreat BritainHILCCRegions & Countries - EuropeHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCHuman geography.Geography / Travel.Human geographyGreat BritainRegions & Countries - EuropeHistory & Archaeology911/.41914.12Gilbert David383700Matless David910384Short Brian1615777AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910830336603321Geographies of British Modernity3946131UNINA