Research Catalog

Title

Blackpool / John K. Walton.

Author

Walton, John K.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; Lancaster : Carnegie Pub., c1998.

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Details

Description

ix, 195 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.

Summary

"In this book John Walton sets the myths against the evidence and charts the rise of the real Blackpool, warts and all, with due attention to the social problems and conflicts associated with a pioneering, popular resort. He offers explanations for the remarkable trajectory of sustained growth which Blackpool has experienced until recently, giving full weight to the years since the first World War as well as the formative and transitional late Victorian and Edwardian decades. He also looks at the wider significance of the growth of Blackpool for economy, society and politics in the wider world."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Town and city histories

Uniform Title

Town and city histories

Subject

Blackpool (England) > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-190) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The fascination of Blackpool -- 2. Blackpool before the railway -- 3. Blackpool in the early railway age, 1840-1870 -- 4. The making of working-class Blackpool, 1870-1914 -- 5. War, conflict and renewal: Blackpool from 1914 to 1939 -- 6. War, prosperity and crisis: the remaking of Blackpool, 1939-1997 -- 7. Blackpool in perspective.

ISBN

1853312150

LCCN

^^^99487860^

OCLC

• 40760341
• SCSB-12141640

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library