A Floating Commonwealth

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A Floating Commonwealth is written by Christopher Harvie and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0198227833 (ISBN 10) and 9780198227830 (ISBN 13).

This is a new portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain, focusing on the sea as connector, not barrier. It argues that the port cities and their hinterlands formed a 'floating commonwealth' whose interaction with one another and with nationalist and imperial politics created an intense political and cultural synergy.