A new naval history

Herausgeber: Colville, Quintin; Davey, James

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. It is the first publication to capture a new form of naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781526113801
• ISBN-10: 1526113805
• Artikelnr.: 53564397

Autorenporträt

Quintin Colville is Senior Curator: Research at Royal Museums Greenwich, Visiting Professor at the University of Portsmouth, and Research Fellow at the University of York James Davey is Lecturer in Naval and Maritime History at the University of Exeter

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables Notes on contributors Introduction Quintin
Colville and James Davey Part I Sociocultural analyses of the Royal Navy 1
Particular skills: warrant officers in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 Evan
Wilson 2 My dearest Tussy': coping with separation during the Napoleonic
Wars (the Fremantle papers, 1800-14) Elaine Chalus 3 The Admiralty's gaze:
disciplining indecency and sodomy in the Edwardian fleet Mary Conley 4
Navy, nation and empire: nineteenth-century photographs of the British
naval community overseas Cindy McCreery 5 Salt water in the blood: race,
indigenous naval recruitment and British colonialism, 1934-41 Daniel Owen
Spence Part II Representations of the Royal Navy 6 Memorialising Anson, the
fighting explorer: a case study in eighteenth-century naval commemoration
and material culture Katherine Parker 7 The apotheosis of Nelson in the
National Gallery of Naval Art Cicely Robinson 8 Naval heroism in the
mid-Victorian family magazine Barbara Korte 9 'What is the British Navy
doing?' The Royal Navy's image problem in War Illustrated magazine
Jonathan Rayner 10 Patriotism and pageantry: representations of Britain's
naval past at the Greenwich Night Pageant, 1933 Emma Hanna Afterword:
Britain and the sea: new histories Jan Rüger