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  • The devil’s highway

    Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c.1850-1900

    by Brad Beaven ...
    Series series Studies in Popular Culture
    Between 1850 and 1900, Ratcliffe Highway was the pulse of maritime London. Sailors from every corner of the globe found solace, and sometimes trouble, in this bustling district. However, for social investigators, it was a place of fascination and fear as it harboured chaotic and dangerous ‘exotic’ communities. Sailortowns were transient, cosmopolitan and working class in character and provide us ... Read more

    $139.69 CAD

  • Port Towns and Urban Cultures

    International Histories of the Waterfront, c.1700—2000

    Edited by Brad Beaven, Karl Bell, Robert James ...
    Series series History (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

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  • Green Unpleasant Land

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    Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly ... Read more

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  • The Last Great Quest

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    by Max Jones ...
    Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and highest continent on Earth to travel to the South Pole. Five men battled through unimaginably harsh conditions only to find the Norwegian flag had been planted at the Pole just weeks before. Captain ... Read more

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  • Storied Ground

    Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity

    by Paul Readman ...
    People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance in shaping English national identity amid the transformations of modernity. The book takes us from the fells of the Lake District to the uplands of Northumberland; from the streetscapes of ... Read more

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  • The Real Jim Hawkins

    Ships' Boys in the Georgian Navy

    by Roland Pietsch ...
    Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy. This groundbreaking new work is a study of the origins, life and culture of the boys of the Georgian ... Read more

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  • Grenfell of Labrador: A Biography

    by Ronald Rompkey ...
    At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fisherman Grenfell became part of philanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Raising funds in Canada and the United States he founded a network of hospitals nursing stations schools and home industries that exists in a modified form to this day. In 1908 the story of his survival after a night marooned on a ... Read more

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  • The Coffin Ship

    Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine

    by Cian T. McMahon ...
    Series Book 4 - The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyA vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great FamineThe standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Co... ... Read more

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  • Victorian Urban Settings

    Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts

    Edited by Debra N. Mancoff, D.J. Trela ...
    Series series Literature and Society in Victorian Britain
    This volume of 13 original interdisciplinary essays surveys the relationship of Victorian works and the urban experience that shaped them. Each essay addresses how the selection or rejection of an urban setting provide the context for a representative product of Victorian art or culture. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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    The Coming of the Irish to Canada

    by Donald MacKay ...
    One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman ... Read more

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  • Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships

    The Saga of the Bride-Ships

    by Peter Johnson ...
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