{"id":1040,"date":"2021-12-07T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2021-11-05T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T13:55:28","slug":"book-review-j-c-beckett-ed-belfast-the-making-of-a-city-belfast-appletree-press-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/07\/book-review-j-c-beckett-ed-belfast-the-making-of-a-city-belfast-appletree-press-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review &#8211; J.C. Beckett (Ed), Belfast, The Making of a City (Belfast: Appletree Press, 2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">J.C. Beckett\u2019s <em>Belfast, The Making of a City<\/em> is an anthology of 12 essays by different historians on the social, political, economic and cultural development of Belfast during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g528ed6\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g528ed6 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/51TXIk2GQJL._SY344_BO1204203200_.jpg\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The nineteenth-century marked the period when the town of Belfast developed from a provincial market town of 20,000 in 1800 to an imperial city of 350,000 being a global hub for the shipping, linen and engineering industries one hundred years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The individual chapters cover a range of topics from the rise of the linen industry to popular entertainment. Overall, this is a useful work and would serve as an excellent textbook on an academic course on the social history of Belfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">However, there are a couple of minor gripes. The lack of footnotes is annoying and it would have been helpful to have some maps for reference and to see how the city expanded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.C. Beckett\u2019s Belfast, The Making of a City is an anthology of 12 essays by different historians on the social, political, economic and cultural development of Belfast during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The nineteenth-century marked the period when the town of Belfast developed from a provincial market town of 20,000 in 1800 to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-34"],"blocksy_meta":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/51TXIk2GQJL._SY344_BO1204203200_.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}