Southampton

Gateway to the British Empire

By: Miles Taylor (Editor)

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Hardcover | 26 September 2007 | Edition Number 1

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In its heyday, the British Empire started and ended with the port of Southampton, yet the history of this most imperial of cities has been curiously neglected. In this authoritative account, Miles Taylor looks at the modern history of the city and port of Southampton through the lens of empire. He examines some of the major international celebrities associated with the region such as David Livingstone, Lord Carnarvon and General Gordon, as well as the city itself during the conflicts, from the Napoleonic to the world wars, that defined Britain's imperial period. "Southampton: Gateway to the British Empire" looks at the popular culture of imperialism in the port and the city, the experience of migrants and the artistic community and the thwarted attempt to bring civil aviation to the area. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Southampton and its maritime past or who enjoys urban history and wants to know more about the connections between Britain's global dominion and its domestic history.

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"'This book presents some fascinating glimpses into the thoroughly local and indeed provincial character of many aspects of British imperial culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its detailed case studies cover a wide span of themes, reflecting some of the diverse, contradictory and sometimes unexpected ways in which empire became part of local municipal experience in places like Southampton, both part of the metropole yet so distinctly unmetropolitan.' Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London'"

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. viii
Preface	p. x
From spa to garrison town: Southampton during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815	p. 1
The Earl of Carnarvon: Highclere, Hampshire and Empire	p. 15
Southampton and the making of an imperial myth: David Livingstone's remains	p. 31
All roads lead to London...or elsewhere: the Southampton School of Art, 1855-1984	p. 49
Hampshire Gothic: the ruin, regeneration and apocalypse of Netley Abbey	p. 67
Gordon of Khartoum: reluctant son of Southampton	p. 83
Commemorating the past in Edwardian Hampshire: King Alfred, pageantry and Empire	p. 95
The Titanic and the port of Southampton	p. 115
Going to war: Southampton and military embarkation	p. 133
Southampton, the Great War and the cinema	p. 149
A vision unfulfilled: Southampton's ambition for the world's first sea aerodrome	p. 167
Not that far? Remembering and forgetting cosmopolitan Southampton in the 20th century	p. 185
Notes	p. 209
Index	p. 243
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