The cultural life of port towns has largely remained a hidden history. Ports, as liminal urban spaces where communities lived and worked, have been foreshadowed by conventional historiography that analyses these for their global trade and imperial networks. However, the waterfront was the intersection of maritime and urban space and the port town was often a unique site of cultural exchange that both reinforced and challenged local, national and imperial boundaries.
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Beaven, B., Bell, K., & James, R. (2016). Introduction. In Port Towns and Urban Cultures International Histories of the Waterfront, c.1700-2000 (pp. 1–10). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48316-4_1
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