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Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century
This detailed academic cultural study looks at the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. John K. Walton offers a broad interpretation of th...
John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze
This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urge...
Unlike other institutions of central importance to working-class life, the fish-and-chip trade has not yet been rescued from what the author of this b...
Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
From 'Sodoms by the sea' at Coney Island & Blackpool to carefully orchestrated corporate entertainment, this new history compares the pursuit of pleas...
A Social History, 1558-1939
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The Politics of Global Adjustment
This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former...
A Social History, 1750-1914
Disraeli is a key figure for students of nineteenth-century Britain. He is indelibly identified with the unmaking of Peel's version of the Conservativ...
The Reform Act of 1867 was highly controversial at the time and has remained so. Was it an inevitable step on the road to full democracy or an irrespo...
A Pedagogy of Hope
Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media & Cultural Studies With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this ...
A Social History
A Study in Regional Change
Chartism is an essential introduction to the movement, and examines the controversial debates surrounding the topic. As well as providing a concise pe...
The World in Flames
A History of the Seaside Resorts of Lancashire
Redcar and Its Neighbours, 1919-1939