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A new history of yachting /
An overview of the history of yachting in its social, cultural, political and economic contexts.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Stirrings and beginnings
- Restoration yachting and its purposes
- The development of yachting in the eighteenth century, part one : the seaside towns
- The development of yachting in the eighteenth century, part two : yachting in Boom Time London
- The Landed Gentry take up yachting
- The slow expansion of yachting in Britain, 1815-1870
- The development of yachting in Ireland and the colonies
- The enthusiastic adoption of yachting by the mercantile and professional classes after 1870, part one : the new men
- The enthusiastic adoption of yachting by the mercantile and professional classes after 1870, part two : a philosophy of yachting for the new men
- The golden age of yachting, 1880-1900, part one : the rich
- The golden age of yachting, 1880-1900, part two : small boats and women sailors
- Between the wars
- 1945-1965 : home-built dinghies and going offshore
- Yachting's third 'golden period' : of heroes and heroines; of families and marinas, 1965-1990
- The summer before the dark : yachting in post-modern times, 1990-2007
- After the crash
- Epilogue : fair winds.