Southampton: gateway to the British Empire
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London I.B. Tauris 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
From spa to garrison town : Southampton during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, 1793-1815 / John Oldfield -- The Earl of Carnarvon : Highclere, Hampshire and empire / Bruce Knox -- Southampton and the making of an imperial myth : David Livingstone's remains / Joanna Lewis -- All roads lead to London--or elsewhere : the Southampton School of Art / Anne Anderson -- Hampshire Gothic : the ruin, regeneration and apocalypse of Netley Abbey / Philip Hoare -- Gordon of Khartoum : reluctant son of Southampton / Miles Taylor -- Commemorating the past in Edwardian Hampshire : King Alfred, pageantry and empire / Paul Readman -- The Titanic and the port of Southampton / Stephanie Barczewski -- Going to war : Southampton and military embarkation / Ian Beckett -- Southampton, the great war and the cinema / Mike Hammond -- A vision unfulfilled : Southampton's ambition for the world's first 'sea aerodrome' / Adrian Smith -- Not that far? : remembering and forgetting cosmopolitan Southampton in the 20th century / Tony Kushner
Using the lens of empire, Miles Taylor looks at the modern history of Southampton. He examines some of the international celebrities associated with the region such as David Livingstone, Lord Carnarvon and General Gordon, as well as the city itself during times of conflict, from Napoleonic to the world wars, that defined Britain's imperial period
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 248 pages)
ISBN:1435691369
1845110323
9781435691360
9781845110321

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