Author: Michael Arthur LewisPublisher: London : Allen & Unwin
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A Social History of the Navy, 1793-1815, Etc
Author: Michael LewisA Social History of the Navy, 1793-1815
Author: Michael Arthur LewisPublisher: London : Allen & Unwin
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A Social History of the Navy, 1793-1815
Author: Michael LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain. Royal Navy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Social History of the Navy. 1793-1815. Ill
Author: Naval Engagements
Author: Timothy JenksPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191516414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in Naval Engagements, looking at the ways in which the navy - a major symbol of national community - was given meaning by a range of social groupings. The study is at once a cultural history of national identity, a social history of naval commemoration, and a political history of struggles over patriotism. Examining the place that naval symbols occupied in British wartime political culture, Timothy Jenks argues that these were more relevant to patriotic discourse than the more commonly explored 'apotheosis' of the Hanoverian monarchs. He establishes the centrality of public images of admirals to the 'victory culture' and political experience of the day, tracing efforts by groups across the political spectrum to invest these figures with appropriate political capital and contemporary meaning. He engages with arguments concerning popular patriotism and the relative cohesiveness of British society. Most importantly, the book establishes the centrality of naval symbolism to the political culture of Georgian Britain. At the same time, it reveals the social practices and discourses that consistently interacted to delimit and restrain a variety of projects ostensibly designed to foster patriotism and national identity. Patriotism was contested, this study argues, rather than consensual, and British national identity in the period was contingent, an ambivalence crucial to the manner in which naval symbols functioned.
Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815
Author: Thomas MalcomsonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783271191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish?
The Age of Nelson; the Royal Navy, 1793-1815
Author: Geoffrey Jules MarcusPublisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Nelson's Navy
Author: Brian LaveryPublisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781591146124
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With a foreword by Patrick O'Brian, Nelson's Navy is the definitive reference work on the British Navy in the Napoleonic era for individuals with an interest in the workings of the greatest fleet of the sailing era. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing navy, the book contains considerable original research to give a clear and authentic picture of the British navy as a coherent yet complex whole.
Sons of the Waves
Author: Stephen TaylorPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
"[A] rollicking narrative . . . Superb"--Ben Wilson, Times A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797 mutinies, these "sons of the waves" held the nation's destiny in their calloused hands.
Author: Timothy David Jenks