Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism

By Alice Mah

Book Overview

Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349448923
• ISBN13: 9781349448920
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"