books.google.ie - Christopher Harvie offers a new portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain by focusing on the sea as connector, not barrier. Atlantic and 'inland sea' together, Harvie argues, created a "floating commonwealth" of port cities and their hinterlands whose interaction, both with one another...http://books.google.ie/books/about/A_Floating_Commonwealth.html?id=gpUpNk-sRDcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA Floating Commonwealth
