PLYMOUTH: A NEW HISTORY - 1603 to the Present Day. [VOL II.]**
by GILL**, CRISPIN:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0715376179
- ISBN 13
- 9780715376171
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PLYMOUTH., Devon, United Kingdom
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour scenic,aerial photographic illustrated upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corner - no nicks or tears present - spine/backstrip lightly sunned/faded,as usual/normal.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Publisher's bright,clean,unmarked,original tan/brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-239pp [paginated] includes 11 chapters,an envoi,28 b/w contemporary illustrations/photographs,11 b/w maps+figures,all throughout the text and the book,appendices(2), sources+references,and an index; plus [unpaginated] title page,separate contents+illus lists/tables.
This is far more than just a record of events: of course it covers such well- known material as the Civil War sieges and the 1941 blitzes,but it also looks at the social and economic forces behind the city's growth and development.
Here are all the contradictions of a puritan town harbouring pirates and swarming with seamen's beerhouses; the divisions which led to the formation of political parties; the social elegance of the upper class and the scramble to make money from prize cargoes.The changing role of the naval dockyard is traced,as is the progress of the Industrial Revolution which made of the Three Towns one of the first 'urban sprawls'; here High Church battled with Low Church, steam trams with horse buses,picture houses with theatres,and Plymouth Argyle's supporters with its management. Mr Gill knows his subject as only a native can; in addition,his research in national as well as local archives has produced much new material,illustrated here with specially drawn maps and rare photographs. The result is a lively and wide- ranging history whose appeal will certainly not be confined to the south-west.
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- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
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- Title
- PLYMOUTH: A NEW HISTORY - 1603 to the Present Day. [VOL II.]**
- Author
- GILL**, CRISPIN:
- Illustrator
- illus with contemporary b/w illus/photographs,b/w maps and figures.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0715376179
- ISBN 13
- 9780715376171
- Publisher
- UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1979.
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- This edition first published
- October 25, 1979
- Keywords
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