Ebook: Geographies of British Modernity: Space and Society in the Twentieth Century

This volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding modern Britain.

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• The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain.
  
• Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain.
  
• Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century.
  
• Combines economic, political, social and cultural geographies.
  
• Demonstrates the vitality of work in this field and its relevance to everyday life.

Content:
Chapter 1 Historical Geographies of British Modernity (pages 1–28): Brian Short, David Gilbert and David Matless
Chapter 2 A Century of Progress? Inequalities in British Society, 1901–2000 (pages 29–53): Danny Dorling
Chapter 3 The Conservative Century? Geography and Conservative Electoral Success During the Twentieth Century (pages 54–79): Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie, Danny Dorling and David Rossiter
Chapter 4 Mobility in the Twentieth Century: Substituting Commuting for Migration? (pages 80–96): Colin G. Pooley
Chapter 5 Qualifying the Evidence: Perceptions of Rural Change in Britain in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (pages 97–112): Alun Howkins
Chapter 6 ‘A Power for Good or Evil’: Geographies of the M1 in Late Fifties Britain (pages 113–131): Peter Merriman
Chapter 7 A New England: Landscape, Exhibition and Remaking Industrial Space in the 1930s (pages 132–150): Denis Linehan
Chapter 8 A Man's World? Masculinity and Metropolitan Modernity at Simpson Piccadilly (pages 151–167): Bronwen Edwards
Chapter 9 Mosques, Temples and Gurdwaras: New Sites of Religion in Twentieth?Century Britain (pages 168–184): Simon Naylor and James R. Ryan
Chapter 10 ‘Stop Being so English’: Suburban Modernity and National Identity in The Twentieth Century (pages 185–203): David Gilbert and Rebecca Preston
Chapter 11 Nation, Empire and Cosmopolis: Ireland and the Break with Britain (pages 204–228): Gerry Kearns
Chapter 12 British Geographical Representations of Imperialism and Colonial Development in the Early and Mid?Twentieth Century (pages 229–249): Robin A. Butlin