LEADER 03641nam 22007092u 450 001 9910145705103321 005 20170815114837.0 010 $a1-281-32265-2 010 $a9786611322656 010 $a0-470-70723-2 010 $a0-470-75225-4 010 $a0-470-75224-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000414248 035 $a(EBL)351157 035 $a(OCoLC)476170849 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000161898 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149492 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161898 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10200283 035 $a(PQKB)10390545 035 $a(PPN)225729911 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000414248 100 $a20100913d2007|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGeographies of British Modernity$b[electronic resource] $eSpace and Society in the Twentieth Century 210 $aChichester $cJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 1 $aRGS-IBG Book Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-631-23500-0 327 $aGeographies 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? 327 $aChapter 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-Cen 330 $aThis volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding modern Britain.:.; The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain.; Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain.; Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century.; Combines economic, political, social and cultural geographies.; Demon 410 0$aRGS-IBG Book Series 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aGeography / Travel 606 $aHuman geography$zGreat Britain 606 $aGreat Britain$2HILCC 606 $aRegions & Countries - Europe$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 615 4$aHuman geography. 615 4$aGeography / Travel. 615 0$aHuman geography 615 7$aGreat Britain 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Europe 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 676 $a911/.41 676 $a914.12 700 $aGilbert$b David$0383700 701 $aMatless$b David$0910384 701 $aShort$b Brian$0964151 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910145705103321 996 $aGeographies of British Modernity$92186527 997 $aUNINA