Authors: David Gilbert (Editor), Brian Short (Editor), David Matless
ISBN-13: 9780631235019, ISBN-10: 0631235019
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
David Gilbert is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Royal Holloway College, University of London.
David Matless is Reader in Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham.Brian Short is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex.
Britain and Britishness have been the subject of intense debate in recent years. This volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding Britain today.
The book is the first collection of its kind and focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century. Its twelve contributions, which range over economic, political, social and cultural geography, explore the relevance of spatial and historical approaches to understanding societal change in Britain. The volume begins with a substantial introductory essay from the editor, and concludes with an Afterword exploring avenues for further research and modes of understanding through which future change might be understood.
Taken as a whole, the book demonstrates the vitality of work in this field and its relevance to everyday life.
Series Editors' Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
List of Contributors | ||
Ch. 1 | Historical Geographies of British Modernity | 1 |
Ch. 2 | A Century of Progress? Inequalities in British Society, 1901-2000 | 31 |
Ch. 3 | The Conservative Century? Geography and Conservative Electoral Success during the Twentieth Century | 54 |
Ch. 4 | Mobility in the Twentieth Century: Substituting Commuting for Migration? | 80 |
Ch. 5 | Qualifying the Evidence: Perceptions of Rural Change in Britain in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century | 97 |
Ch. 6 | 'A Power for Good or Evil': Geographies of the M1 in Late Fifties Britain | 115 |
Ch. 7 | A New England: Landscape, Exhibition and Remaking Industrial Space in the 1930s | 132 |
Ch. 8 | A Man's World? Masculinity and Metropolitan Modernity at Simpson Piccadilly | 151 |
Ch. 9 | Mosques, Temples and Gurdwaras: New Sites of Religion in Twentieth-Century Britain | 168 |
Ch. 10 | 'Stop being so English': Suburban Modernity and National Identity in the Twentieth Century | 187 |
Ch. 11 | Nation, Empire and Cosmopolis: Ireland and the Break with Britain | 204 |
Ch. 12 | British Geographical Representations of Imperialism and Colonial Development in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century | 229 |
Afterword: Emblematic Landscapes of the British Modern | 250 | |
Index | 258 |