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Citizen Sailors

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Author : Glyn Prysor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-08-25

Citizen Sailors written by Glyn Prysor and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-25 with History categories.

'The deck and the bridge were pointing to the sky at an alarming angle and our thoughts were to get the devil out of it and into the water. Almost in unison we shouted "for God's sake jump boys".' Citizen Sailors is a groundbreaking people's history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War. Drawing on hundreds of contemporary diaries and letters, along with memoirs, oral history and official documents, Glyn Prysor tells the human story of Britain's war at sea. The sailors of the Royal Navy fought from the very first day of the war until the very last. They played a vital part in a truly global war, from America to Australia and from the Arctic to South Africa. They fought in every conceivable vessel: vast aircraft carriers and cramped corvettes, fast motor boats and rickety minesweepers, Swordfish biplanes and ageing submarines. Seen through the eyes of sailors themselves, this is a compelling account of life in the wartime Royal Navy: humanity and horror, triumphs and tragedies, nerve-wracking convoys and epic gun battles, devastating aerial bombardment and swashbuckling amphibious landings. Citizen Sailors puts the Royal Navy and its sailors back at the heart of the story of Britain's Second World War.

Citizen Sailors

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Author : Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-12

Citizen Sailors written by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-12 with History categories.

After 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation’s seamen, whose labor took them deep into the Atlantic world. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal tells the story of how their efforts created the first national, racially inclusive model of U.S. citizenship.

Citizen Sailors

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Author : Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2015-10-12

Citizen Sailors written by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-12 with History categories.

In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation’s seamen, whose labor took them far from home and deep into the Atlantic world. Citizen Sailors tells the story of how their efforts to become American at sea in the midst of war and revolution created the first national, racially inclusive model of United States citizenship. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal immerses us in sailors’ pursuit of safe passage through the ocean world during the turbulent age of revolution. Challenged by British press-gangs and French privateersmen, who considered them Britons and rejected their citizenship claims, American seamen demanded that the U.S. government take action to protect them. In response, federal leaders created a system of national identification documents for sailors and issued them to tens of thousands of mariners of all races—nearly a century before such credentials came into wider use. Citizenship for American sailors was strikingly ahead of its time: it marked the federal government’s most extensive foray into defining the boundaries of national belonging until the Civil War era, and the government’s most explicit recognition of black Americans’ equal membership as well. This remarkable system succeeded in safeguarding seafarers, but it fell victim to rising racism and nativism after 1815. Not until the twentieth century would the United States again embrace such an inclusive vision of American nationhood.

School Of Hard Knots

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Author : Henry H. Abernathy, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-11-01

School Of Hard Knots written by Henry H. Abernathy, Jr. and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with History categories.

As a citizen sailor of the late 1960's I spent three eventful years aboard a US Navy destroyer, the USS Furse (DD-882) including intensive operations in Vietnam as well as in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in over 150,000 Nautical miles at sea. Those three years stand out as the most intense and formative of my adult life. Among the events I witnessed were running aground, colliding with another ship, being hit by enemy fire, and a murder on board. But many everyday challenges and events loom equally large for what they taught me about myself and about human nature in our tightly packed and tight-knit shipboard community. Letters written home almost every day along with declassified logs from the ship provide a window into life aboard a Navy destroyer. Re-entry to civilian life at the height of the Vietnam war illuminates these turbulent times as well as what citizen soldiers/sailors faced in that era.

Ready Then Ready Now Ready Always

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Author : David Frank Winkler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-12-01

Ready Then Ready Now Ready Always written by David Frank Winkler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-01 with United States categories.

Ready Then, Ready Now, Ready Always: More than a Century of Service by Citizen Sailors coincides with the centennial anniversary of the U.S. Navy Reserve on March 3, 2015. However, as the title indicates, American's have been leaving their civilian occupations since the birth of the Navy in 1775 to serve the nation at sea during times of crises. This well illustrated narrative aims to tell about the contributions of those civilians to the nation's defense and security. Besides providing a broad chronology covering how citizen Sailors served as privateers, naval militiamen, National Naval Volunteers, Naval Reservists, and finally simply as Sailors as part of a one Navy concept, the author elected to follow numerous individuals on their journeys in the Navy Reserve as representative stories of the millions of Americans who once wore Navy blue part-time. By highlighting the contributions of these individuals, the intent is to honor all who served in the USNR as well as salute their families for their service to country.

Citizen Sailors

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Author : Richard Howard Gimblett
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2010-11-16

Citizen Sailors written by Richard Howard Gimblett and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-16 with History categories.

This commemorative volume records a special kind of dual citizenship: Canadians exercising the profession of the sea in their nation's service, while also living out their civilian occupations in their home communities. The perspectives of these citizen sailors provide an interesting, valuable, and timely alternative history of the Canadian Navy.

Citizen Sailors In A Changing Society

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Author : Louis A. Zurcher
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1986-05-15

Citizen Sailors In A Changing Society written by Louis A. Zurcher and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-05-15 with History categories.

This collection of original articles addresses current policy issues for manning the U.S. Naval Reserve. The expert contributors represent several social science disciplines and approach their subject from a variety of perspectives. Some evaluate existing policy processes and make recommendations for their improvement. Others reflect on the functions and dysfunctions of the process from a theoretical standpoint. All, however, examine the formulation and implementation of policy within the specific context of contemporary changes in society. The specific issues discussed include recruitment, manpower, training, mobilization readiness, retention, organizational relevance, and societal relevance. Also considered are the sociopsychological motivations of individuals who join the reserves. The editors provide an understanding of the participation of individuals in large-scale organizations and how this relates to the problems of developing realistic policies for manning the U.S. military forces as a whole. They stress the increasing importance of the military reserves in a society where conscription and large standing armies may no longer be politically viable options. The volume also contains a current and comprehensive bibliography of research monographs and technical reports pertaining to this subject.

Citizen Sailors

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Author : Richard H. Gimblett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-09-19

Citizen Sailors written by Richard H. Gimblett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with categories.

"This commemorative volume records a special kind of dual citizenship: Canadians exercising the profession of the sea in their nation's service, while also living out civilian occupations in their home communities. The perspectives of these citizen sailors provide an interesting, valuable, and timely alternative history of the Navy."

Citizen Sailors

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Author : Richard Howard Gimblett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

Citizen Sailors written by Richard Howard Gimblett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with HISTORY categories.

Moral Contagion

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Author : Michael A. Schoeppner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-17

Moral Contagion written by Michael A. Schoeppner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-17 with History categories.

During the Antebellum era, thousands of free black sailors were arrested for violating the Negro Seamen Acts. In retelling the harrowing experiences of free black sailors, Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

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