Looks at the history of the city and port of Southampton. This book examines some of the major international celebrities associated with the region such as David Livingstone, Lord Carnarvon and General Gordon, as well as the city itself during the conflicts, from the Napoleonic to the world wars, that defined Britain's imperial period.
Miles Taylor is Professor of Modern History at the University of York and was formerly Professor of Modern British History at the University of Southampton. His recent publications include Ernest Jones, Chartism and the Romance of Politics, 1819-69 and (as co-editor) The Victorians Since 1901 and Palmerston Studies (2 volumes).
"'This book presents some fascinating glimpses into the thoroughly local and indeed provincial character of many aspects of British imperial culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its detailed case studies cover a wide span of themes, reflecting some of the diverse, contradictory and sometimes unexpected ways in which empire became part of local municipal experience in places like Southampton, both part of the metropole yet so distinctly unmetropolitan.' Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London'"
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