Jules P. Gehrke

Canals in a Changing Britain

Construction, Culture, and Environment, 1760-1968

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book assesses canals as a major technological system re-shaping Britons' relationship with their landscape and environment between 1760 and 1968, and argues this 200-year arc of historical experience is essential to understanding canals as sites of recreation, leisure, heritage, and experience of the natural environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781793652331
• ISBN-10: 1793652333
• Artikelnr.: 71594220

Autorenporträt

Jules P. Gehrke is professor in the Department of History at Saginaw Valley State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Re-making the Landscape: Canals in the Late Eighteenth and Early
Nineteenth Centuries
Chapter 2: An Independent Spirit: Life Afloat in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 3: An Era of Decline: The Debate Over Canals in the Early Twentieth
Century, 1906-1945
Chapter 4: An Independent Spirit Reclaimed?: The Cressy and the
Re-imagining of Canals Before 1951
Chapter 5: Revival and Regeneration: Canals and a Transforming Britain,
1951-1968
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author