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The British industrial canal : reading the waterways from the eighteenth century to the Anthropocene
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ISBN: 1837720053 1837720037 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press,

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This work of literary criticism explores literature about canals in Britain, from poetry about early industrial waterways in the eighteenth century to 'canal noir' in the twenty-first. Themes include water, climate, gender, Empire, fossils, nature, labour and time.


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Islands and Britishness
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ISBN: 1283436523 1443835439 9786613436528 9781443835435 9781283436526 1443835161 9781443835169 6613436526 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Islands and archipelagos hold great imaginative power, and they have long been a subject of study for cartographers and geographers, for anthropologists and historians of colonisation. But what does it mean to be an islander? Can one feel both British and Manx, for example? What are British tourists looking for when they go to former island colonies? How do past relationships with Britain affect islands today? This collection takes a variety of perspectives to provide answers to such question...

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