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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 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 NavyMemorialising 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; Index