Author: Edward WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Wooden World Dissected in the Character of a Ship of War as Also the Characters of All the Officers, from the Captain to the Common Sailor
Author: Edward WardThe Wooden World Dissected
Author: Edward WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Wooden World Dissected, ... The Third Edition
Author: Manly PLAIN-DEALER (pseud. [i.e. Edward Ward.])Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Wooden World Dissected in the Character of a Ship of War
Author: Edward WardCatalogue of Books ...
Author: Britain’s War for the Mediterranean
Author: William Casey BakerPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682479269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Britain’s War for the Mediterranean provides a definitive study on British warmaking in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition. It traces the origins of foreign and naval policies from the early eighteenth century to describe the duality of British affairs. These contradictions manifested themselves in the War of the First Coalition as Great Britain attempted to build consensus in the Mediterranean World while clinging to its power base of naval power and commerce. The book explores the decisions of individuals and the wider trends of the British political and naval system, honed over the course of the eighteenth century. In explaining war against Revolutionary France, the book follows the decisions of admirals, diplomats, and politicians in attempting to cobble together a coalition of Spanish, Austrian, Sardinian, and Neapolitan forces. This book also makes connections with the other theaters of war: The Austrian Netherlands and the Caribbean. Britain’s War for the Mediterranean examines the internal working of the British government during the crisis of the French Revolution. It focuses on how politicians, diplomats, and military commanders formulated strategy for the Mediterranean theater. One of the major conclusions of this book is that the British government never spoke with one voice. Lacking synchronization in a changing conflict, the structure and conflicting objectives of each branch of the government failed to create a coherent plan to resist Republican expansion in the region. The book complicates the simplistic view of previous works on the weakness of allies and the naivete of the Pitt ministry, providing agency to diplomats and commanders across the region. The second major conclusion is that these conflicting objectives were firmly rooted in the experiences of the eighteenth century. British diplomacy, crippled in the aftermath of the American Revolution, saw the French Revolution as an opportunity to build consensus and a shared view of a British world. French aggression offered an opportunity to reclaim a position of influence lost over the course of the 1700s. In contrast, the trajectory of British foreign policy shaped the use of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth century. A trans-Atlantic force, a war in the Mediterranean forced British admirals to relearn the complicated nature of regional foreign policy. Diplomacy and naval power clashed over the conduct of the war – one rooted in foreign courts, the other in maritime coercion.
The British Tar in Fact and Fiction
Author: Charles Napier RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Rushing Into Floods
Author: Gunda WindmüllerPublisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN: 3899719689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The dramatic representation of maritime spaces, characters and plots in Restoration and early eighteenth-century English theatres served as a crucial discursive negotiation of a burgeoning empire. This study focuses on staging the sea in a period of growing maritime, commercial and colonial activity, a time when the prominence of the sea and shipping was firmly established in the very fabric of English life. As theatres were re-established after the Restoration, playhouses soon became very visible spaces of cultural activity and important locales for staging cultural contact and conflict. Plays staging the sea can be read as central in representing the budding maritime empire to metropolitan audiences, as well as negotiating political power and knowledge about the other. The study explores well-known plays by authors such as Aphra Behn and William Wycherley alongside a host of more obscure plays by authors such as Edward Ravenscroft and Charles Gildon as cultural performances for negotiating cultural identity and difference in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Mars Stript of His Armour
Author: Edward WardBoys at Sea
Author: B. BurgPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230590705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Boys at Sea is a study of homoerotic life in the Royal Navy during the age of sail. The book traces every feature of sexual life at sea, including seduction, rape, prostitution, courts martial, and the punishments meted out to those convicted of violating the stern moral code set down in the Articles of War .