People, Place and Power on the Nineteenth-Century Waterfront: Sailortown

1. Introduction. - i. Literatures, entanglements and spaces. - ii. Voices. - iii. Sailortowns in time and space: A brief tour. - 2. The seafarer in the age of sail. - i. Representing the seafarer. - ii. Mobility, identity and markets. - iii. Working in a peculiar industry. - iv. Choices. - 3. The maritime-urban frontier. - i. Sailortown and the Victorian urban crisis. - ii. Sailortown and the cosmopolitan port city. - iii. Sailortown's streets. - iv. Spaces of enticement. - v. Threats and dangers. - vi. Imagined places. - 4. Crimps and crimping. - i. The mythic crimp. - iii. Controlling spaces. - iv. Depredations. - v. Crimps and market power. - 5. Visions of home. - i. Family lives. - ii. The seamen's boarding-house. - iii. Sailors' Homes. - iv. Missions to seamen. - v. Institutional landscapes. - 6. The state in sailortown. - i. The war on desertion. - ii. Regulating the spaces of crimping. - iii. 'Government crimping'. - iv. Documents, identities and the global subaltern. - v. Public health and sailortown's sexual entanglements. - 7. Legacies: Sailortown in the twentieth century. - i. Race and place on the waterfront. - ii. War, Depression, and the welfare of seafarers. - Conclusion. - Sources and Bibliography