Enduring city : Belfast in the twentieth century / edited by Frederick W. Boal and Stephen A. Royle ; with the cartographical assistance of Maura E. Pringle
2006, 1st edition. Belfast : Blackstaff Press in association with Belfast City Council and Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Royal Irish Academy. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #323269
ISBN: 0856407909
Physical description: xvii, 363 p.: ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 28 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-350) and index. Contents: 1. Enduring city/ Frederick W. Boal Stephen A. Royle p. 2. 2. Belfast: foundations of the twentieth century/ Stephen A. Royle p. 11. 3. Bricks, stone, concrete and steel: the built fabric of twentieth-century Belfast/ Paul Larmour p. 30. 4. Big processes and little people: the population of metropolitan Belfast 1901-2001/ Frederick W. Boal p. 56. 5. From Smokestacks to service economy: foundations for a competitive city?/ Mark Hart p. 84. 6. Belfast: return from Motown?/ Austin Smyth p. 99. 7. Governing the city/ Jonathan Bardon p. 124. 8. Planning the city; planning the region/ Bill Morrison p. 141. 9. Back to the river: the Lagan and Belfast in the twentieth century/ Frederick W. Boal p. 155. 10. Landscape of spires/ John D. Brewer Margaret C. Keane David N. Livingstone p. 180. 11. Past and future: imagining and visioning the city/ William J. V. Neill p. 195. 12. Memorialising and marking the great war: Belfast remembers/ Nuala C. Johnson p. 207. 13. Belfast: the killing fields/ Russell C. Murray Frederick W. Boal p. 221. 14. Health in Belfast: the vital statistics of poverty/ Alun Evans p. 238. 15. Educating the city/ E. J. Creighton p. 257. 16. Popular culture/ Jonathan Bardon p. 275. 17. 'The place had character'/ Patricia Craig p. 294. 18. Village voices/ Patricia Craig p. 309. 19. Belfast: the way ahead/ Marie-Therese McGivern p. 328. Subjects: Belfast (Northern Ireland) History 20th century. Belfast (Northern Ireland) Social conditions 20th century. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated.
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