Port Towns and Urban Cultures : International Histories of the Waterfront, c.1700—2000 / edited by Brad Beaven, Karl Bell, Robert James.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beaven, Brad, Editor.

Bell, Karl, Editor.

James, Robert, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Cities and towns--History.

Cities and towns.

World history.

Cultural History.

Urban History.

World History, Global and Transnational History.

Local Subjects:

Cultural History.

Urban History.

World History, Global and Transnational History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIX, 289 p. 7 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book, the product of international scholarship, offers innovative and challenging perspectives on the cultural histories of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this important collection explore two key themes; the nature and character of ‘sailortown’ culture and port-town life, and the representations of port towns that were forged both within and beyond urban-maritime communities. The book’s exploration of port town identities and cultures, and its use of a rich array of methodological approaches and cultural artefacts, will make it of great interest to both urban and maritime historians. It also represents a major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary field of coastal studies.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781137483164

1137483164