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Belfast : the emerging city, 1850-1914 /
In 1613, the small settlement of Belfast, with a population of about 1,000, was granted its Royal Charter as a borough. Three hundred years later, Belfast emerged as a city of international importance. With one of the world's largest ports, it enjoyed a brief spell as Ireland's largest urb...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dublin ; Portland, OR :
Irish Academic Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; List of Plates; Foreword Alf McCreary MBE; Introduction Olwen Purdue; CHAPTER 1 Markets and Messages: Linenopolis Meets the World; CHAPTER 2 Belfast: The Rise and Fall of a Civic Culture?; CHAPTER 3 Big Vision City: The Physical Transformation of Belfast by Provincial Architects, 1870-1910; CHAPTER 4 Reading Shakespeare at 22 University Square; CHAPTER 5 The Belfast Natural History Society in the Nineteenth Century: A Communication Hub; Plate Section 1.
- CHAPTER 6 A Country for Young Men (Or Two Quacks and a Son of Dust)CHAPTER 7 A City 'on the rise': Travel and Tourism in Nineteenth-Century Belfast; CHAPTER 8 'A noble Church in the most Catholic quarter of a bitterly Protestant and Presbyterian city': The Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Clonard, West Belfast; CHAPTER 9 Edwardian Belfast: Marriage, Fertility and Religion in 1911; Plate Section 2; CHAPTER 10 'The Family Wage' A Factor in Migration? ; CHAPTER 11 Migration in Belfast History: Trajectories, Letters, Voices ; Notes; Index.