Sara Caputo

Foreign Jack Tars (eBook, ePUB)

The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores foreign seamen''s employment in the British Royal Navy of the French Wars, and deconstructs the meanings of ''foreignness'' itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009199803
• Artikelnr.: 70912420

Autorenporträt

Sara Caputo is Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, and Research Fellow at Magdalene College. Her work has won the Prince Consort and Thirlwall Prize and Seeley Medal for a historical doctoral thesis completed at Cambridge, and the British Commission for Maritime History Prize for best UK thesis on maritime history. She has also been awarded the international Ideas Prize, the Sir Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History, and the Scottish History Society Rosebery Prize. She has published several articles on maritime social and cultural history, and held visiting fellowships at various institutions in Britain, Germany, and the US.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The State: 1. Countable 'foreigners': birthplace and demographic profiles
2. 'Sacred and indestructible' bonds: alien seamen, subjecthood, and the Navy
Part II. The Nation: 3. A Babel and a Gehenna: languages and religions
4. 'Complexions of every varied hue': racial beliefs, biopower, and acclimatisation
5. 'They cannot keep the sea beyond a passage': the Royal Navy and recruitment in the Two Sicilies
6. 'From among the Northern nations alone': Dutchmen, Danes, and Norwegians in the fleet
Part III. Displacement: 7. Mercenaries, migrants, and refugees: Navy crews as 'motley crews'
Conclusion.