Negotiating Masculinities And Modernity In The Maritime World 1815 1940

Author : Karen Downing,Johnathan Thayer,Joanne Begiato
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030779467

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Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940 by Karen Downing,Johnathan Thayer,Joanne Begiato Pdf

This book explores ideas of masculinity in the maritime world in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. During this time commerce, politics and technology supported male privilege, while simultaneously creating the polite, consumerist and sedentary lifestyles that were perceived as damaging the minds and bodies of men. This volume explores this paradox through the figure of the sailor, a working-class man whose representation fulfilled numerous political and social ends in this period. It begins with the enduring image of romantic, heroic veterans of the Napeolonic wars, takes the reader through the challenges to masculinities created by encounters with other races and ethnicities, and with technological change, shifting geopolitical and cultural contexts, and ends with the fragile portrayal of masculinity in the imagined Nelson. In doing so, this edited collection shows that maritime masculinities (ideals, representations and the seamen themselves) were highly visible and volatile sites for negotiating the tensions of masculinities with civilisation, race, technology, patriotism, citizenship, and respectability during the long nineteenth century.

Author : Karen Downing,Johnathan Thayer,Joanne Begiato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Masculinity
ISBN : 3030779475

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Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815-1940 by Karen Downing,Johnathan Thayer,Joanne Begiato Pdf

This book explores ideas of masculinity in the maritime world in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. During this time commerce, politics and technology supported male privilege, while simultaneously creating the polite, consumerist and sedentary lifestyles that were perceived as damaging the minds and bodies of men. This volume explores this paradox through the figure of the sailor, a working-class man whose representation fulfilled numerous political and social ends in this period. It begins with the enduring image of romantic, heroic veterans of the Napeolonic wars, takes the reader through the challenges to masculinities created by encounters with other races and ethnicities, and with technological change, shifting geopolitical and cultural contexts, and ends with the fragile portrayal of masculinity in the imagined Nelson. In doing so, this edited collection shows that maritime masculinities (ideals, representations and the seamen themselves) were highly visible and volatile sites for negotiating the tensions of masculinities with civilisation, race, technology, patriotism, citizenship, and respectability during the long nineteenth century.

Author : David Lambert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009464413

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Soldiers of Uncertain Rank by David Lambert Pdf

A cultural, military and imperial history of the Black soldiers of Britain's West India Regiments.

Author : Johnathan Thayer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031456183

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Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports by Johnathan Thayer Pdf

This book argues first, that the forces of industrialization that transformed ship technology simultaneously transformed the working-class lives of merchant seamen, intensifying class conflict and producing collective networks of subversion and resistance within the urban borderland spaces of sailortowns in which sailors fought to maintain control over their mobility, agency, and rights. Second, that given their social, cultural, economic, geographic, and legal marginalization, merchant seamen have occupied essential roles at the parameters of US urban, legal, labor, immigration, and wartime history. Third, that the constellation of these histories, embedded in the encounters and negotiations that merchant seamen provoked along the nation’s coastlines and sailortowns, collectively represents a unique and essential perspective on the history of US citizenship.

Author : Isaac Land
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789518586305

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Lake Ladoga by Isaac Land Pdf

Aimed at researchers, students and all interested in history, this multidisciplinary study offers a spectacular view of the history of Europe’s largest lake. Adopting the lens of coastal history, this edited volume presents the development of the vast Great Lake’s catchment area over a long-time span, from archaeological traces to Viking routes and from fishery huts to luxury villas of the power elite. It reflects on people’s sensory-historical relationships with aquatic nature, and considers the benefits and harms of power plants and factories to human communities and the environment. The focus of the study is on the central and northern parts of the shores of Lake Ladoga, which belonged to Finnish rule between 1812 and 1944. The multidisciplinary approach permits an unusually wide range of questions. What has the Great Lake meant to local residents in cultural and emotional terms? How should we conceptualize the extensive and diverse networks of activities that surrounded the lake? What kind of Ladoga beaches did the Finns have to cede to the Soviet Union at the end of the war in 1944? How have Finns reminisced about their lost homelands? How have the Russians transformed the profile of the region, and what is the state of Ladoga’s waters today? The volume is the first overall presentation of Lake Ladoga, which today is entirely part of Russia, aimed at an international readership. The rich source material of cross-border research consists of both diverse archival material and chronicles, folklore, reminiscence, and modern satellite images. The history of Lake Ladoga helps readers to understand better the economic, political, and socio-cultural characteristics of the cross-border areas, and the dynamics of the vulnerable border regions.

Author : Marlou Schrover
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089640475

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Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective by Marlou Schrover Pdf

This incisive study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective.

Author : Dane A. Morrison
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1421442361

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Eastward of Good Hope by Dane A. Morrison Pdf

Morrison reconsiders American ideas about the world through three questions: How did British Americans imagine the world before independence allowed them to travel "Eastward of Good Hope"? What were the signal encounters that filled the public sphere in their early years of global encounter? And finally, how did Americans' contacts with other peoples inflect their ideas about the world and their place in it? Written in a lively, engaging style, Eastward of Good Hope will appeal to scholars and the general public alike.

Author : Jerry H. Bentley,Sanjay Subrahmanyam,Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 052176162X

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The Cambridge World History by Jerry H. Bentley,Sanjay Subrahmanyam,Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Pdf

The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history.

Author : Viccy Coltman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108417686

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Art and Identity by Viccy Coltman Pdf

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

Author : Aske Laursen Brock,Guido van Meersbergen,Edmond Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000463552

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Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World by Aske Laursen Brock,Guido van Meersbergen,Edmond Smith Pdf

Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information trans>fer during the early modern period. By charting how the leaders, members, employees, and supporters of different trading companies gathered, pro>cessed, employed, protected, and divulged intelligence about foreign lands, peoples, and markets, this book throws new light on the internal uses of information by corporate actors and the ways they engaged with, relied on, and supplied various external publics. This ranged from using secret knowl>edge to beat competitors, to shaping debates about empire, and to forcing Europeans to reassess their understandings of specific environments due to contacts with non-European peoples. Reframing our understanding of trading companies through the lens of travel literature, this volume brings together thirteen experts in the field to facilitate a new understanding of how European corporations and empires were shaped by global webs of information exchange

Author : Paul Addison,Harriet Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405141406

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A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000 by Paul Addison,Harriet Jones Pdf

A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themesand debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the SecondWorld War to the end of the century. Assesses the impact of the Second World War Looks at Britain’s role in the wider world, including thelegacy of Empire, Britain’s ‘specialrelationship’ with the United States, and integration withcontinental Europe Explores cultural issues, such as class consciousness,immigration and race relations, changing gender roles, and theimpact of the mass media Covers domestic politics and the economy Introduces the varied perspectives dominating historicalwriting on this period Identifies the key issues which are likely to fuel futuredebate

Author : Mark Blyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135984014

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Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (IPE) by Mark Blyth Pdf

Providing an overview of the range and scope of International Political Economy scholarship, this important work maps the different regional schools of IPE and notes the distinctive way IPE is practiced and conceptualized around the world.

Author : Geoffrey Callender
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022006061

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Sea Kings of Britain by Geoffrey Callender Pdf

This volume provides a fascinating account of the careers and exploits of British sea captains, including John Hawkins and Robert Blake, who were instrumental in the rise of British naval power. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Geoffrey Callender
Publisher : London Christophers [1924]
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015012195767

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The Naval Side of British History by Geoffrey Callender Pdf

Author : S. Carroll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230591820

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Cultures of Violence by S. Carroll Pdf

Thinkers and historians have long perceived violence and its control as integral to the very idea of 'Western Civilization'. Focusing on interpersonal violence and the huge role it played in human affairs in the post-medieval West, this timely collection brings together the latest interdisciplinary and historical research in the field.