By Brad Beaven, Karl Bell, Robert James (eds.)
Despite the port’s prominence in maritime historical past, its cultural importance has lengthy been ignored in favour of its function inside of financial and imperial networks. outlined by way of their intersection of maritime and concrete house, port cities have been websites of complicated cultural exchanges. This booklet, the made of foreign scholarship, bargains leading edge and tough views at the cultural histories of ports, starting from eighteenth-century Africa to twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays during this very important assortment discover key topics; the character and personality of ‘sailortown’ tradition and port-town existence, and the representations of port cities that have been cast either inside and past urban-maritime groups. The book’s exploration of port city identities and cultures, and its use of a wealthy array of methodological ways and cultural artefacts, will make it of significant curiosity to either city and maritime historians. It additionally represents a big contribution to the rising, interdisciplinary box of coastal studies.
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He remained on the run several months later and I have not found evidence that he was ever recaptured. 54 This parallels the low sailor desertion rate in other isolated ports, such as Gibraltar. See Rodger, ‘Stragglers and Deserters’, 59. V. 1500-1750’, Modern Asian Studies, 26, 641–661. 56 Bartolomeus Bilo van Hamburg, CA, CJ 14, 27 March 1732, 22–24. 57 Pieter de Vriend van Brabant, CA, CJ 18, 27 September 1736, 64–5. 26 N. Worden The numerous cases of bands of soldier drosters in the judicial records rarely included sailors.
67. 14 For example, ‘Sally’s love for a sailor’ (c. 1800–1815). Anon. In the local version the line ‘As careless I wandered down London street’, has been changed to ‘As carelessly I walked down upon Newcastle Quay’. John Bell Collection of Local Songs, Newcastle University Specialist Collections. 15 For example, The Thrush. Marshall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne). 68. ‘HAIL, TYNESIDE LADS IN COLLIER FLEETS’: SONG CULTURE… 33 ‘Sweet Poll of Plymouth’ and ‘Tom Starboard’ by Thomas Knight (d. 17 While these ballads were ubiquitous, other songs reflected more specific local concerns of the unease of living in a port, telling of the fear of impressment and its effect upon domestic survival.