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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
Contents |
Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Literatures, Entanglements and Spaces -- Voices -- Sailortowns in Time and Space: A Brief Tour -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Seafarer in the Age of Sail -- Representing the Seafarer -- Mobility, Identity and Markets -- Working in a Peculiar Industry -- Choices -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Maritime-Urban Frontier -- Sailortown and the Victorian Urban Crisis -- Sailortown and the Cosmopolitan Port City -- Sailortown's Streets -- Spaces of Enticement -- Threats and Dangers -- Imagined Places -- Conclusion |
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Notes -- Chapter 4: Crimps and Crimping -- The Mythic Crimp -- Representing the Crimp -- Controlling Spaces -- Depredations -- Crimps and Market Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Visions of Home -- Family Lives -- The Seamen's Boarding House -- Sailors' Homes -- Missions to Seamen -- Institutional Landscapes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The State in Sailortown -- The War on Desertion -- Regulating the Spaces of Crimping -- 'Government Crimping' -- Documents, Identities and the Global Subaltern -- Public Health and Sailortown's Sexual Entanglements -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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Chapter 7: Legacies: Sailortown in the Twentieth Century -- Race and Segregation on the Waterfront -- War, Depression and the Welfare of Seafarers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources and Bibliography -- Manuscript Collections -- Printed Primary Materials -- Secondary Materials -- Index |
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ISBN |
9783319331591 |
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