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Autore: | Gilbert David |
Titolo: | Geographies of British Modernity [[electronic resource] ] : Space and Society in the Twentieth Century |
Pubblicazione: | Chichester, : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
Disciplina: | 911/.41 |
914.12 | |
Soggetto topico: | Human geography |
Geography / Travel | |
Human geography - Great Britain | |
Great Britain | |
Regions & Countries - Europe | |
History & Archaeology | |
Altri autori: | MatlessDavid ShortBrian |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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-Cen | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Geographies of British Modernity |
ISBN: | 1-281-32265-2 |
9786611322656 | |
0-470-70723-2 | |
0-470-75225-4 | |
0-470-75224-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910145705103321 |
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