Port Towns and Urban Cultures
Subtitle: International Histories of the Waterfront, C. 1700--2000
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781137483157
Subjects: Harbors
Description: This book 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 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.