About Britain
A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles
In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to encourage readers to venture out beyond the capital and on to 'the roads and the by-roads' to see Britain as a 'living country'. Yet these thirteen guides did more than celebrate the rural splendour of this 'island nation': they also made much of Britain's industrial power and mid-century ambition - her thirst for new technologies, pride in manufacturing and passion for exciting new ways to travel by road, air and sea.Armed with these About Britain guides, historian Tim Cole takes to the roads to find out what has…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4729-3727-8
- EAN: 9781472937278
- Produktnummer: 36206282
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 7'665 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: Integrated b+w illustrations and maps
Über den Autor
Professor Tim Cole is Professor of Social History at Bristol University and Director of the Brigstow Institute, conducting research into what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.His first book Images of the Holocaust (Duckworth and Routledge US) was shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book Award. In 2003 he published Holocaust City:The Making of a Jewish Ghetto with Routledge and in 2011 Traces of the Holocaust: Journeying In and Out of the Ghettos (Continuum) which was commended by the jury of the Fraenkel Prize.
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