Men Of Honour Trafalgar And The Making Of The English Hero
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Men Of Honour Trafalgar And The Making Of The English Hero
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Author : Adam Nicolson
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2009-10-01
Men Of Honour Trafalgar And The Making Of The English Hero written by Adam Nicolson and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with History categories.
The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events. In Men of Honour, Adam Nicolson takes one of the greatest identifiable heroes in British history, Horatio Nelson, and examines the broader themes of heroism, violence and virtue.
The Napoleonic Wars
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Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
The Napoleonic Wars written by Alexander Mikaberidze and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Geopolitics categories.
The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.
Britain And The Sea
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Author : Glen O'Hara
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-06-30
Britain And The Sea written by Glen O'Hara and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-30 with History categories.
O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day. This all-encompassing account covers individual seafarers, ship-borne migration, warfare and the maritime economy, as well as the British people's maritime ideas and self perception throughout the centuries.
Class Leisure And National Identity In British Children S Literature 1918 1950
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Author : Hazel Sheeky Bird
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-07
Class Leisure And National Identity In British Children S Literature 1918 1950 written by Hazel Sheeky Bird and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed through the pursuit of leisure. Focusing on stories about hiking, camping and sailing, this book offers a fresh insight into a popular period of modern British cultural and political history.
Mutiny And Maritime Radicalism In The Age Of Revolution
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Author : Clare Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-19
Mutiny And Maritime Radicalism In The Age Of Revolution written by Clare Anderson 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 2013-12-19 with History categories.
This volume explores mutiny and maritime radicalism in its full geographic extent during the Age of Revolution.
Youth Heroism And War Propaganda
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Author : D. A. B. Ronald
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-02-26
Youth Heroism And War Propaganda written by D. A. B. Ronald and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-26 with History categories.
Youth, Heroism and Naval Propaganda explores how the young maritime hero became a major new figure of war propaganda in the second half of the long eighteenth century. At that time, Britain was searching for a new national identity, and the young maritime hero and his exploits conjured images of vigour, energy, enthusiasm and courage. Adopted as centrepiece in a campaign of concerted war-propaganda leading up to the Battle of Trafalgar, the young hero came to represent much that was quintessentially British at this major turning-point in the Nation's history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, this study shows how the young hero gave maritime youth a symbolic power which it had never before had in Britain. It offers a valuable contribution to the field of British military and naval history, as well as the study of British identity, youth, heroism and propaganda.
Eighteenth Century Women Writers And The Gentleman S Liberation Movement
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Author : Megan A. Woodworth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Eighteenth Century Women Writers And The Gentleman S Liberation Movement written by Megan A. Woodworth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their heroines and how they engage with contemporary political debates, particularly those relating to the French Revolution. Megan Woodworth argues that women writers' ideas about their own liberty are also present in their treatment of male characters. In positing a 'Gentleman's Liberation Movement,' she suggests that Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen all used their creative powers to liberate men from the very institutions and ideas about power, society, and gender that promote the subjection of women. Their writing juxtaposes the role of women in the private spheres with men's engagement in political structures and successive wars for independence (the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars). The failures associated with fighting these wars and the ideological debates surrounding them made plain, at least to these women writers, that in denying the universality of these natural freedoms, their liberating effects would be severely compromised. Thus, to win the same rights for which men fought, women writers sought to remake men as individuals freed from the tyranny of their patriarchal inheritance.
Transports Of Delight
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Author : Peter Hancock
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-05-11
Transports Of Delight written by Peter Hancock and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-11 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This inspiring book shows how the spiritual side of life, with its thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, is intimately bound up with our material technologies. From the wonder of Gothic Cathedrals, to the quiet majesty of lighter than air flight, to the ultimate in luxury of the north Atlantic steamers, Peter Hancock explores how these sequential heights of technology have enabled our dreams of being transported to new and uncharted realms to become reality. Sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively, technology has always been there to make material the visions of our imagination. This book shows how this has essentially been true for all technologies from Stonehenge to space station.But technology is far from perfect. Indeed, the author argues here that some of the most public and tragic of its failures still remain instructive, emblematic, and even inspiring. He reports on examples such as a Cathedral of the Earth (Beauvais), a Cathedral of the Seas (Titanic), and a Cathedral of the Air (Hindenburg) and tells their stories from the viewpoint of material transcendence. By interweaving their stories he reveals how technologies can succeed in elevating human beings and, in taking them to whole new realms of being, he explores and explains why these experiences are ‘Transports of Delight.’
Sons Of The Waves
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Author : Stephen Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Sons Of The Waves written by Stephen Taylor and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with History categories.
A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain’s trade, exploration, and warfare British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797 mutinies, these "sons of the waves" held the nation’s destiny in their calloused hands.
Negotiating Masculinities And Modernity In The Maritime World 1815 1940
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Author : Karen Downing
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-16
Negotiating Masculinities And Modernity In The Maritime World 1815 1940 written by Karen Downing and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-16 with History categories.
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.