Order and disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815 : control, resistance, flogging and hanging /

Churchill once famously remarked that he would not join the navy because it was "all rum, sodomy and the lash." How far this was true of the navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars is the subject of this important new book. Summary punishments, courts martial, flogging and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Malcomson, Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2016.
Temas:
Great Britain. > Royal Navy > History.
Great Britain. > Royal Navy
1700-1899
Naval discipline > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Naval discipline > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Discipline dans la marine > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Discipline dans la marine > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Military > Naval.
Naval discipline
Great Britain
History
Naval histories.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Authority's Tools for Creating Order
  • Paper Forms of Control
  • Creating Order through Patronage and Material Incentives
  • Creating Order through Regimentation, Food, Tobacco and Alcohol, Religion and Language
  • Part II: Creating 'Disorder'
  • Resistance
  • Illegitimate Activity: Theft, Profiteering and Embezzlement, and Sex
  • Opportunities for 'Disorder': The Coming of War, Shipwreck, Defeat and Drunkenness
  • Part III: The Responses to 'Disorder'
  • The Responses
  • Conclusions.

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