PORTSMOUTH: A HISTORY
Written by A. Temple Patterson
Published by Moonraker Press
in 1976
ISBN: 023900146x
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PORTSMOUTH: A HISTORY
Written by A. Temple Patterson.
Stock no. 820924
1st.
1976.
Hardback.
Fine condition.
Pictorial boards. 164 Pages. ISBN: 023900146x.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1. The first 'Old Portsmouth': portchester
- 2. Portsmouth in the Middle Ages
- 3. Tudor Portsmouth: progress and a a setback
- 4. For King or Parliament? 1603-1660
- 5. The rise to primacy as a naval port
- 6. Progress and peril
- 7. Town government and local politics in the eighteenth century
- 8. The 'Great French Wars', 1793-1815
- 9. 'Peace, retrenchment and reform', 1815-35
- 10. Expansion resumed, 1835-60
- 11. Mid-Victorian Portsmouth: war and rumours of war
- 12. Steady advance, 1860-1914
- 13. The two world wars: ruin and resurrection
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index