ISBN:
9783030779467
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiv, 313 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Global studies in social and cultural maritime history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Maritime Masculinities (Veranstaltung : 2016 : Oxford) Negotiating masculinities and modernity in the maritime world, 1815-1940
DDC:
305.3109034
Keywords:
Masculinity-Social aspects-History-19th century
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Masculinity-Social aspects-History-20th century
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Men-Identity
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction: A Sailor's Progress? -- Negotiation and Change -- Technology and Contestation -- Patriotism, Citizenship, and Respectability -- Nascent and Fragile Masculinities -- Historicising Masculinities -- Regency Masculinity? Napoleonic War Veterans and Explaining Change in the History of Masculinities -- Choosing Naval Veterans to Explain Change -- The Royal Navy as a Communication Community -- Naval Veterans at Home -- Military Masculinity and Families -- Conclusion -- Part I: Negotiation and Change -- Displaying the Wooden Walls of Old England: The HMS Foudroyant as a Monument to Lost Skills and Manhood, 1892-1897 -- Lighting German Fires -- Nostalgia in the Era of Navalism -- "Our Nelson's Ship" -- Planning for Exhibition -- The Capacity for Heroism -- 'He Was Possessed of the Very First Natural Abilities': American Mariners' Construction of Masculinity on the Far Side of the World -- Gender and Gentility -- Samuel Shaw's Reception -- The Cosmopolitan Gentility of Amasa Delano -- Edmund Fanning, 'd____d Yankee' -- Richard Cleveland's 'Great Civility' -- Conclusion -- 'A Splendid Body of Men': Fishermen as Model Males in Late-Nineteenth-Century British Imagery -- Introduction -- Independence: The Dignified Breadwinner -- Domesticity: Fishermen and the Ties of Home -- 'A Splendid Body of Men': Physique, Costume, Sobriety -- Model Britons: Loyal, Hardy, Bold and Skilful -- Conclusion -- Part II: Technology and Contestation -- 'Our Future Lies Upon the Water': Redemptive Manhood and Maritime Labour Reform in the Wilhelmine Era in Germany -- Popular Depictions of the Seaman: Alienated Rogue or Emblem of Empire? -- Reconnecting the Prodigal Seaman to the Fatherland -- From Stepsons of Society to the Brotherhood of Citizens -- Making 'Real Seamen' for War.
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