A new naval history
A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Series: | Cultural history of modern war.
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| Online Access: | Access E-Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Sociocultural analyses of the Royal Navy. Particular skills : warrant officers in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815
- 'My dearest Tussy' : coping with separation during the Napoleonic Wars (the Fremantle papers, 1800-14)
- The Admiralty's gaze : disciplining indecency and sodomy in the Edwardian fleet
- Navy, nation and empire : nineteenth-century photographs of the British naval community overseas
- Salt water in the blood : race, indigenous naval recruitment and British colonialism, 1934-41
- Part II: Representations of the Royal Navy. Memorialising Anson, the fighting explorer : a case study in eighteenth-century naval commemoration and material culture
- The apotheosis of Nelson in the National Gallery of Naval Art
- Naval heroism in the mid-Victorian family magazine
- 'What is the British Navy doing?' The Royal Navy's image problem in War Illustrated magazine
- Patriotism and pageantry : representations of Britain's naval past at the Greenwich Night Pageant, 1933
- Afterword: Britain and the sea : new histories.