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- Hardcover
- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10
1846316340
ISBN-13
9781846316340
eBay Product ID (ePID)
144010004
Product Key Features
Book Title
Belfast 400 : People, Place and History
Number of Pages
395 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Ireland
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
7.4 in
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In format and content it is high-brow-meets-coffee-table and the illustrations and maps are quite stunning., To celebrate the occasion a new book has been published by Liverpool University Press. I was lucky to get an early copy and it really is a great read.The book is full colour with lots of beautiful photos of Belfast throughout the years. At nearly 400 pages there is some great reading in it.For my money it would make a perfect christmas present for the history buff in your life.The book can be bought from Amazon Liverpool University Press and it should also be available from Easons, Waterstones etc.Below is some information on the book the publisher sent me:New urban history of Belfast publishedBelfast 400: People, Place and History will be published in November to mark the 400th anniversary of the granting of Belfast's City Charter.The most comprehensive history of Belfast will be published in November 2012 by Liverpool University Press, and officially launched at City Hall, Belfast on 24th January 2013. Supported by Queen's University Belfast and Belfast City Council, Belfast 400, People, Place and History tells the story of the city's unique urban history and has been published to mark the 400th anniversary of the granting of Belfast's City Charter in 1613.Beautifully produced and illustrated, Belfast 400 has been written by a team of experts on the city's history: historians, archaeologists, geographers and social scientists from Queen's University and NUI, Maynooth, led by Professor Sean Connolly from QUB's School of History and Anthropology.The project was awarded a grant of £60,000 by the Leverhulme Trust and has been three years in the writing. It explores the full range of developments in Belfast's urban history, from its emergence as a settlement, through its rise as an industrial town, through urban decay and renewal.The book looks at how Belfast, which began as a settlement at a waterlogged river mouth, developed into one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding and linen manufacture - and the effects of this industrialisation and its subsequent decline on its citizens. It asks how the city of Belfast can now redefine its identity, and the still often fraught relationships that exist between different sections of its population, to face the challenges of the twenty-first century.Editor of the book and Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast Sean Connolly said: "This is one of those opportunities that comes along once or twice in a career. Over the past few years specialists in several fields have started to show us just how much there is to be discovered about Belfast past and present. I have been very lucky in being given the opportunity to pull the results of all that work together into an overview that should make anyone interested in Belfast look at the city in a new light."The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Alderman Gavin Robinson, commented: "There have been many books written about our city's rich history, but this is undoubtedly the most ambitious, and also the most timely, coinciding as it does with the 400th anniversary of the granting of the original charter. It will be a worthy addition to the canon of literature on our city, and no doubt will be essential reading for everyone with an interest in the story of what has made the Belfast we know today."Alison Welsby, Editorial Director of Liverpool University Press said: "Liverpool University Press is very proud to be publishing this landmark publication. Professor Connolly is one of the leading historians on Belfast. He and his team of contributors have crafted a compelling study of a city whose rich urban history has often been overshadowed." Brian O'Neill, www.belfasthistory.org, "... this book is designed to mark this year's 400th anniversary of Belfast's charter. In format and content it is high-brow-meets-coffee-table and the illustrations and maps are quite stunning."--Irish Times"The book will make good a good present for anyone interested in the socio-politico-economic history of Belfast and wanting to get ahead of next year's commemorations."--Northern Irish Bloggers"There have been many books written about our city's rich history, but this is undoubtedly the most ambitious, and also the most timely, coinciding as it does with the 400th anniversary of the granting of the original charter. It will be a worthy addition to the canon of literature on our city, and no doubt will be essential reading for everyone with an interest in the story of what has made the Belfast we know today."--Belfast Telegraph"^... this is an excellent, readable and informative work of sustained scholarship. With lavish illustrations, carefully written prose, and with the depth of research worn lightly in each chapter, Belfast 400 is a fitting marker of the city's anniversary, as well as a clear reminder that humanity lived there before the plantation. It is, moreover, a wholly suitable product, rendered at a very reasonable price, for both public and academic consumption. This editor and his contributors, as well as those who subsidised it, deserve our appreciation."--Irish Historical Studies"In a book celebrating both the anniversary of Belfast's first charter in 1613 and the end of its more recent Troubles, a chequered history emerges: a small, inauspiciously located private town becomes one of the great boom cities of the British Empire. Buildings including the magnificent City Hall of 1906 and the Titanic museum of 2012 flag high points in an epic story."--Times Higher Education ('What are you reading?' section), There have been many books written about our city's rich history, but this is undoubtedly the most ambitious, and also the most timely, coinciding as it does with the 400th anniversary of the granting of the original charter. It will be a worthy addition to the canon of literature on our city, and no doubt will be essential reading for everyone with an interest in the story of what has made the Belfast we know today., "... this book is designed to mark this year's 400th anniversary of Belfast's charter. In format and content it is high-brow-meets-coffee-table and the illustrations and maps are quite stunning."--Irish Times "The book will make good a good present for anyone interested in the socio-politico-economic history of Belfast and wanting to get ahead of next year's commemorations."--Northern Irish Bloggers "There have been many books written about our city's rich history, but this is undoubtedly the most ambitious, and also the most timely, coinciding as it does with the 400th anniversary of the granting of the original charter. It will be a worthy addition to the canon of literature on our city, and no doubt will be essential reading for everyone with an interest in the story of what has made the Belfast we know today."--Belfast Telegraph "... this is an excellent, readable and informative work of sustained scholarship. With lavish illustrations, carefully written prose, and with the depth of research worn lightly in each chapter, Belfast 400 is a fitting marker of the city's anniversary, as well as a clear reminder that humanity lived there before the plantation. It is, moreover, a wholly suitable product, rendered at a very reasonable price, for both public and academic consumption. This editor and his contributors, as well as those who subsidised it, deserve our appreciation."--Irish Historical Studies "In a book celebrating both the anniversary of Belfast's first charter in 1613 and the end of its more recent Troubles, a chequered history emerges: a small, inauspiciously located private town becomes one of the great boom cities of the British Empire. Buildings including the magnificent City Hall of 1906 and the Titanic museum of 2012 flag high points in an epic story."--Times Higher Education ('What are you reading?' section), There have been many books written about our city's rich history, but this is undoubtedly the most ambitious, and also the most timely, coinciding as it does with the 400th anniversary of the granting of the original charter. It will be a worthy addition to the canon of literature on our city, and no doubt will be essential reading for everyone with an interest in the story of what has made the Belfast we know today. Gavin Robinson, Belfast Telegraph, ... this book is designed to mark this year's 400th anniversary of Belfast's charter. In format and content it is high-brow-meets-coffee-table and the illustrations and maps are quite stunning., The book will make good a good present for anyone interested in the socio-politico-economic history of Belfast and wanting to get ahead of next year's commemorations., For my money it would make a perfect Christmas present for the history buff in your life. Brian O'Neill, www.belfasthistory.org, For the first time, the period of human settlement, from early prehistory to the present day, has been brought together in a way that makes the latest research accessible., "... this book is designed to mark this year's 400th anniversary of Belfast's charter. In format and content it is high-brow-meets-coffee-table and the illustrations and maps are quite stunning."--Irish Times "The book will make good a good present for anyone interested in the socio-politico-economic history of Belfast and wanting to get ahead of next year's commemorations."--Northern Irish Bloggers "There have been many books written about our city's rich history, but this is undoubtedly the most ambitious, and also the most timely, coinciding as it does with the 400th anniversary of the granting of the original charter. It will be a worthy addition to the canon of literature on our city, and no doubt will be essential reading for everyone with an interest in the story of what has made the Belfast we know today."--Belfast Telegraph "EL this is an excellent, readable and informative work of sustained scholarship. With lavish illustrations, carefully written prose, and with the depth of research worn lightly in each chapter, Belfast 400 is a fitting marker of the city's anniversary, as well as a clear reminder that humanity lived there before the plantation. It is, moreover, a wholly suitable product, rendered at a very reasonable price, for both public and academic consumption. This editor and his contributors, as well as those who subsidised it, deserve our appreciation."--Irish Historical Studies "In a book celebrating both the anniversary of Belfast's first charter in 1613 and the end of its more recent Troubles, a chequered history emerges: a small, inauspiciously located private town becomes one of the great boom cities of the British Empire. Buildings including the magnificent City Hall of 1906 and the Titanic museum of 2012 flag high points in an epic story."--Times Higher Education ('What are you reading?' section)
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
941.67
Table Of Content
Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Tables Selected Maps 1. Imagining Belfast S.J. Connolly and Gillian McIntosh 2. Beneath Our Feet: The Archaeological Record Ruairi O Baoill 3. The Medieval Settlement Philip Macdonald 4. Making Belfast, 1600-1750 Raymond Gillespie 5. Improving Town, 1750-1820 S.J. Connolly 6. Workshop of the Empire, 1820-1914 Stephen A. Royle 7. Whose City? Belonging and Exclusion in the Nineteenth-Century Urban World S.J. Connolly and Gillian McIntosh 8. An Age of Conservative Modernity, 1914-1968 Sean O'Connell 9. Titanic Town: Living in a Landscape of Conflict Dominic Bryan Notes Timeline Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index Subscribers to the Limited Edition
Synopsis
Published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the town's foundation, Belfast 400 draws on a wide range of recent research to present a new history of one of the world's most fascinating and most misunderstood cities. The misunderstanding, and the fascination, arise from the same contradictions. Belfast was a significant part of the story of Great Britain's rise to industrial greatness. But it was a city located, not in Great Britain, but in Ireland. It was one of the main theatres in which the conflicts of identity that have created modern Ireland were fought out. Yet both its politics and its industrial character set it wholly apart from other Irish towns. A central part of the history of both societies, it has never fitted neatly into the accepted narrative of either. Against this background Belfast 400 seeks to recapture the true history of Ireland's second city in all its complexity. In doing so it asks many questions. Why did such an apparently unfavourable spot, a waterlogged river mouth, Published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of Belfast's charter, Belfast 400 presents a new history of one of the world's most fascinating and most misunderstood cities. The misunderstanding, and the fascination, arise from the same contradictions. Belfast was a significant part of the story of Great Britain's rise to industrial greatness. But it was a city located, not in Great Britain, but in Ireland. It was one of the main theatres in which the conflicts of identity that have created modern Ireland were fought out. Yet both its politics and its industrial character set it wholly apart from other Irish towns. A central part of the history of both societies, it has never fitted neatly into the accepted narrative of either. Against this background Belfast 400 seeks to recapture the true history of Ireland's second city in all its complexity. In doing so it asks many questions. Why did such an apparently unfavourable spot, a waterlogged river mouth, persist for centuries - long before the appearance of the first town - as a site of human settlement. Why did what was intended to be a minor outpost of British settlement in the province of Ulster become its most important urban centre? How did the medium-sized commercial centre that thus emerged expand to become, by the beginning of the twentieth century, one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding and linen manufacture? Finally, and most of all, what did the development of this great industrial centre mean for those who lived there? How did its inhabitants experience the birth pangs of an industrial society, the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century heyday of manufacturing, and the long decline that followed? How far, equally, can the city of Belfast now redefine its identity, and the still often fraught relationships that exist between different sections of its population, to face the challenges of the twenty-first century?
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