5
1
A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860-1930
336
by Christopher Harvie
Christopher Harvie
A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860-1930
336
by Christopher Harvie
Christopher Harvie
Hardcover
$130.00
-
PICK UP IN STORECheck Availability at Nearby Stores
Available within 2 business hours
Related collections and offers
130.0
In Stock
Overview
Christopher Harvie offers a new portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain by focusing on the sea as connector, not barrier. Atlantic and 'inland sea' together, Harvie argues, created a "floating commonwealth" of port cities and their hinterlands whose interaction, both with one another and with nationalist and imperial politics, created an intense political and cultural synergy.
At a technical level, this produced the freight steamer and the efficient types of railways which opened up the developing world, as well as the institutions of international finance and communications in the age of "telegrams and anger". And ultimately, the resources of the Atlantic cities, their shipyards and works, enabled Britain to win withstand the test of the First World War.
Meanwhile, as Harvie shows, the continuous attempt to make sense of an ever-changing material reality also stimulated the discourses on which social criticism and literary modernism were based, from Carlyle to James Joyce — although the ultimate outcome, of slump and emigration, would leave enduring problems in the years to come.
At a technical level, this produced the freight steamer and the efficient types of railways which opened up the developing world, as well as the institutions of international finance and communications in the age of "telegrams and anger". And ultimately, the resources of the Atlantic cities, their shipyards and works, enabled Britain to win withstand the test of the First World War.
Meanwhile, as Harvie shows, the continuous attempt to make sense of an ever-changing material reality also stimulated the discourses on which social criticism and literary modernism were based, from Carlyle to James Joyce — although the ultimate outcome, of slump and emigration, would leave enduring problems in the years to come.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198227830 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date: | 06/02/2008 |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Christopher Harvie is Professor of British Studies at TübingenUniversity, Germany, having previously taught at the Open University. He is Honorary Professor of Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and also at Strathclyde University, Glasgow.
Table of Contents
Prelude: Behold The Sea!I. 'Behold The Sea!'II. 'The Writing and Acting of History'III. The Atlantic MomentIV. PerspectivesV. Nationalizing HistoryVI. BasinsVII. CovenantsVIII. MediationsIX. 'L'Invitation au Voyage'I Places and VoicesI.1 Sacred Lambencies and Thin Crusts: Culture, Danger and IndustryI. iNatura Maligna/iII. A Patriot for Whom? III. Auld Scotia - Who She? IV. 'A Thin Crust'V. Enlightenment and UncertaintyVI. GalateaI.2 Garron Top To Westward Ho!: The Inland SeaI. The Irish BoatII. A Country the Poets have ImaginedIII. 'The Antechamber of Britain'IV. Money and MigrantsV. 'Traffics and Discoveries'VI. 'But Westward look!'VII. Civic EmpiresI.3 McAndrew: The Engineer on the Celtic FringeI. 'The Forgiving of the Anchor'II. The Uses of RhetoricIII. BreakthroughIV. 'Lives of the Engineers'V. 'Work and Question not'VI. Prussians and AsiaticsII Ourselves TogetherII.1 Anglo-Saxons into Celts: The Scottish IntellectualsI. Enlightenment and DeceptionII. An Infinite Religious IdeaIII. RevivalsIV. Geddes and SynergyVII. 'The Genius of the Gael'II.2 The Folk and the Gwerin: Religious Democracy in Scotland and WalesI. The Persistence of FaithII. State, Religion, PeopleIII. 'Godly Commonwealths'IV. Religious RebelsV. The People's WilliamVI. LegaciesVII. Schools and SchoolmastersII.3 Contrary Heroes: Industry, Ethnie, and IrelandI. Measuring Distances: Ireland, Industry and TheoryII. 'Creative Chaos', Victims and GastarbeiterIII. Machines and HeroesIV. Carlyle and Ireland: Positivist-ProtestantV. Carlyle and Ireland: Celtic-CatholicVI. The Ultramontane OpportunityVII. Where were the Hero-Sisters? VIII. Hidden Ireland or Plain People?III In Time of the Breaking of NationsIII.1 Muscular Celticism: Sport and NationalismI. Sport and StatehoodII. iHomo Ludens/iIII. Sport and SociologistsIV. The Civic ModeV. To the Tailteann GamesVI. iSpieltrieb/i: a Diversion? III.2 John Bull's Other Irishman: Shaw, Geddes, and the Geotechnic MovementI. The View from Baker StreetII. The Intelligent Fabian's West BritainIII. The Road to RosscullenIV. EarthquakeV. Passionate DreamingVI. 'Order the guns and kill!'III.3 Men Who Pushed and Went: West Coast Capitalism, War and NationalismI. Frontism and RemembranceII. Expectations, Actualities, the Wizard: August 1914-April 1916III. 'The Workshops are our Battlefield'IV. From Reconstruction to VictoryV. The University of Frongoch: Ireland escapesIV Aftermath'Night's Candles Are Burned Out'I. Dynamic ForcesII. Into the DoldrumsIII. 'A General Unsettlement'IV. InquestsV. After IrelandVI. American DreamsVII. Nationalism ReduxVIII. The Big Ship Goes DownIX. Episodes, Epiphanies, Imperium? X. The O' on OlympianFrom the B&N Reads Blog
Page 1 of