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Hardcover A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860-1930 Book

ISBN: 0198227833

ISBN13: 9780198227830

A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860-1930

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Christopher Harvie offers a new portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain by focusing on the sea as connector, not barrier. Atlantic and 'inland sea' together, Harvie argues, created a "floating commonwealth" of port cities and their hinterlands whose interaction, both with one another and with nationalist and imperial politics, created an intense political and cultural synergy.

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