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Alice Mah - Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism - 9781349448920 - V9781349448920
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Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism

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Description for Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism Paperback. Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHB; JPQB; RGC; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.

Product Details

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
322 g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349448920
SKU
V9781349448920
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Alice Mah
Alice Mah is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place (2012), which won the 2013 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.

Reviews for Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism
The book is structured into three parts covering urban identity, waterfront work, and radicalism, each broken down into chapters and sub-sections focusing on the three chosen cities. ... people interested in ports and their industries and workforces, urban planners and museum administrators will find Mah's book useful. (Chris Madsen, The Northern Mariner, Vol. 26 (1), March, 2016) ... Read more

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