Rum Sodomy Prayers And The Lash Revisited

Author : Matthew S. Seligmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191078293

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Rum, Sodomy, Prayers, and the Lash Revisited by Matthew S. Seligmann Pdf

'Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.' This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones that were subject to major reform initiatives while Churchill was in charge of the Royal Navy between October 1911 and May 1915. During this period, not only were there major improvements in pay and conditions for sailors, but detailed consideration was also given to the future of the spirit ration; to the punishing and eradicating of homosexual practices; to the spiritual concerns of the fleet; and to the regime of corporal punishment that underpinned naval discipline for boy sailors. In short, under Churchill, the Royal Navy introduced a social reform programme perfectly encapsulated in this elegant quip. And, yet, not only has no one studied it; many people do not even know that such a programme even existed. This book rectifies that. It shows that Churchill was not just a major architect of welfare reform as President of the Board of Trade and as Home Secretary, but that he continued to push a radical social agenda while running the Navy.

Author : SELIGMANN.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0191820482

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RUM, SODOMY, PRAYERS, AND THE LASH REVISITED. by SELIGMANN. Pdf

Author : Matthew S. Seligmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198759973

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Rum, Sodomy, Prayers, and the Lash Revisited by Matthew S. Seligmann Pdf

Rum, Sodomy, Prayers and the Lash Revisited' is an examination of British naval social policy in the opening decades of the twentieth century, under the command of Winston Churchill. It highlights an often forgotten aspect of Churchill's career and his attempts to bring the senior service into the modern world.

Author : Annika A. Culver
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824896706

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Democratizing Luxury by Annika A. Culver Pdf

Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to mass-produced products as an important business model. Japanese name-brand luxury evolved alongside a consumer society emerging in the late nineteenth century, with iconic companies whose names became associated with quality and style. At the same time, Western ideas of modernity merged with earlier artisanal ideals to create Japanese connotations of luxury for readily accessible products. Businesses manufactured items at all price points to increase consumer attainability, while starkly curtailing production for limited editions to augment desirability. Between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, control over family disposable income transformed Japanese middle-class women into an important market. Growth of purchasing power among women corresponded with Japanese goods diffusing throughout the empire, and globally after the Asia-Pacific war (1931–1945). This book offers case studies that examine affordable luxury consumer items often advertised to women, including drinks, beauty products, fashion, and timepieces. Japanese companies have capitalized on affordable luxury since a flourishing domestic mercantile economy began in the Tokugawa period (1603–1868), showcasing brand-name shops, renowned artisans, and mass-produced woodblock prints by famous artists. In the late nineteenth century, personalized service expanded within department stores like Mitsukoshi, Shiseidō cosmetic counters, and designer boutiques. Shiseidō now globally markets invented traditions of omotenashi, Japanese ”values” of hospitality expressed in purchasing and consuming its products. In postwar times, when a thriving democracy and middle-class were tied to greater disposable income and consumerism, companies rebuilt a growing consumer base among cautious shoppers: democratizing luxury at reasonable prices and maintaining business patterns of accessibility, high quality, and exemplary service. Nationalism amid economic success soon blended with myths of unique Japanese identity in a mass consumer society, suffused by commodity fetishism with widely available brand names. As the first comprehensive history of iconic Japanese name brands and their unique connotations of luxury and accessibility in modern Japan and elsewhere, Democratizing Luxury explores company histories and reveals strategies that lead customers to consume these alluring commodities.

Author : Bradley Cesario
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110671810

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New Crusade by Bradley Cesario Pdf

The period between the mid-1880s and the First World War was the high point of the navalist movement - but the idea of 'navalism' took many forms, and meant different problems and different solutions to various groups within British society and the British government. New Crusade examines one form of the British navalist movement: directed navalism. As opposed to the broader cultural conception of British naval power, directed navalism consisted of a cooperative, symbiotic working relationship between three elite and self-selecting groups: serving naval officers (professionals), naval correspondents and editors working for national newspapers and periodicals (press), and members of Parliament who dealt with naval issues (politicians). Directed navalism meant agitation for a specific, achievable goal. It was the bedrock upon which the more popular and ultimately more successful cultural navalism of fleet reviews and music halls was built. Though directed navalism collapsed before the First World War, it was extraordinarily successful in its time, and it was a necessary precursor for the creation of a national discourse in which cultural navalism could thrive. Its rise and fall is the story of this book.

Author : Maggie Andrews,N. C. Fleming,Marcus Morris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030499396

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Histories, Memories and Representations of being Young in the First World War by Maggie Andrews,N. C. Fleming,Marcus Morris Pdf

This book seeks to place children and young people centrally within the study of the contemporary British home front, its cultural representations and its place in the historical memory of the First World War. This edited collection interrogates not only war and its effects on children and young people, but how understandings of this conflict have shaped or been shaped by historical memories of the Great War, which have only allowed for several tropes of childhood during the conflict to emerge. It brings together new research by emerging and established scholars who, through a series of tightly focussed case studies, introduce a range of new histories to both explore the experience of being young during the First World War, and interrogate the memories and representations of the conflict produced for children. Taken together the chapters in this volume shed light on the multiple ways in which the Great War shaped, disrupted and interrupted childhood in Britain, and illuminate simultaneously the selectivity of the portrayal of the conflict within the more typical national narratives.

Author : Michael Snape
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192664440

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A Church Militant by Michael Snape Pdf

This is a study of the relationship between Anglicans and the armed forces, of the military heritage and history of the Anglican Communion, and the changing nature of this relationship between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s. This era spanned a period of imperial expansion and colonial conflict round the turn of the twentieth century, the two World Wars, the Cold War, wars of decolonisation, and Vietnam. In terms of armed conflict, it was the bloodiest period in the history of humanity and marked the advent of weaponry that had the capacity to extinguish human civilization. This book assesses the contribution of an expansive Anglican Communion to the armed forces of the English-speaking world, examines the ways in which this has been remembered, and explores its challenging legacy for the twenty-first century Church of England.

Author : Stephen DAVIES
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789629375935

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Transport to Another World by Stephen DAVIES Pdf

Mementoes of HMS Tamar abound in Hong Kong, but what is really known about this troopship and her role in the maintenance of British imperial rule? Using logbooks, newspapers, and numerous other sources, this book pieces together the multifaceted and largely unknown history of the Tamar . From her launch into service to her roles as a hospital, theatre stage, and transport for military personnel, the Tamar carried not just people, but also their mundane dreams and ambitions— for friends, families, and staying alive. Any ideas or concerns about sustaining the empire seldom featured in their minds at all, but it was this empire that the Tamar served for seventy-nine years, steaming the equivalent of thirty-two times around the Earth and transporting tens of thousands of people to what would seem to them another world. In this engaging narrative, the Tamar’s exploits and the experiences of her crew and passengers parallel those of the British Empire and its subjects, bringing to life the realities of imperial life on land and at sea. As mud continues to settle over the Tamar’s forgotten remains in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, Transport to Another World will appeal to historians and readers interested in maritime history and colonial Hong Kong in general, and makes a case for conserving the memory of a past some would prefer to forget.

Author : David Morgan-Owen,Louis Halewood
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789627435

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Economic Warfare and the Sea by David Morgan-Owen,Louis Halewood Pdf

Economic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and the late-twentieth century. Featuring contributions from renown historians and rising scholars, this volume forwards an international perspective upon the intersection of maritime history, strategy, and diplomacy. Core themes include the role of ‘economic warfare’ in maritime strategic thought, prevalence of economic competition below the threshold of open conflict, and the role non-state actors have played in the prosecution of economic warfare. Using unique material from 18 different archives across six countries, this volume explores critical moments in the development of economic warfare, naval technology, and international law, including the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War. Distinct chapters also analyse the role of economic warfare in theories of maritime strategy, and what the future holds for the changing role of navies in the floating global economy of the twenty-first century.

Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 9780199951062

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The Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Mikaberidze Pdf

The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.

Author : David G. Morgan-Owen,Louis Halewood
Publisher : Research in Maritime History L
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789621594

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Economic Warfare and the Sea by David G. Morgan-Owen,Louis Halewood Pdf

EconomicWarfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritimewarfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and thelate-twentieth century. Using a variety of geographic and chronologicalexamples, it presents a longue duree approach to a crucial theme in maritimestrategic thought.

Author : Seth Stein LeJacq
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000955958

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Sexual and Gender Difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900 by Seth Stein LeJacq Pdf

This volume is a collection of a variety of important records that will give readers insight into key themes into the history of what its criminal code called “the unnatural and detestable sin of buggery”- sex between males - in the Royal Navy. The richest sources are transcripts of trials, including ones that erupted into public scandals and ones that provide a vivid window into the sexual cultures of the navy. The book also provides lists of important records in the naval archive and will serve as a guide to finding and interpreting them. This important volume, accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, opens up this history and archive to researchers, teachers, and students studying queer history, the history of gender and sexuality, and naval and maritime history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X030295518

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The Historian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Buckey
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682475829

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Genesis of the Grand Fleet by Christopher Buckey Pdf

Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet. Established in early 1907 by First Sea Lord Sir John Fisher, the Home Fleet combined an active core of powerful armored warships with a unification of the various reserve divisions of warships previously under the control of the three Royal Navy home port commands. Fisher boasted that the new Home Fleet would be able to counter the growing German Hochseeflotte. While these boasts were accurate, they were not the sole motivation behind the Home Fleet's establishment. The Liberal Party's landslide victory in the 1906 General Election made fiscal economy on the part of the Admiralty even more important than before, and this significantly influenced the Home Fleet's creation. Subsequently the Home Fleet suffered a sustained campaign of criticism by the commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet, Lord Charles Beresford. This campaign ruined many careers including Beresford's and resulted in the assimilation of the Channel Fleet into the Home Fleet in 1909. From 1910 onward the Home Fleet steadily evolved and became the most important single command in the Royal Navy, and the Home Fleet's successive commanders-in-chief had influence on strategic policy rivaled only by the Board of Admiralty. The last prewar commander of the Home Fleet, Admiral Sir George Callaghan achieved this influence by impressing the civilian head of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. A driven reformer, Churchill's influence was almost as important as Fisher's. Against this backdrop of political drama, Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 explains how Britain maintained its maritime preeminence in the early twentieth century. As Christopher Buckey describes, the fleet sustained Britain and her allies' path to victory in World War I.

Author : Arthur L. Hayward
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465573902

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Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who Have Been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining Or Other Offences by Arthur L. Hayward Pdf