Transport and the industrial city communities and identities

Transport and the industrial city communities and identitiesFocusing on Manchester, this book shows that canals were at the heart of the self styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchesters industrial revolution coal, corn, and cotton but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the shock city of the early Victorian age.

providing comprehensive insight into the cultural

What have the Finns got right that other nations haven't

focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century

Civilisation was the subject of some of the most prominent public mural paintings and sculptures in Europe and the United States

The volume explores the role of soft power in US foreign policy past

and how vocabularies shape our access to the full spectrum of information about a topic

the "soft" technologies are drivers of physical "hard" technologies

methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies – the sociologies of science

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environmental

and on the ways in which they expose the workings of the theatre rather than conceal them

The volume highlights new perspectives on the topic