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  • Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports

    Sailors Ashore

    by Johnathan Thayer ...
    Series series History (R0)
    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, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940

    A Sailor’s Progress?

    Edited by Karen Downing, Johnathan Thayer, Joanne Begiato ...
    Series series Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History
    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 ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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    Jutland and British Naval Command

    by Andrew Gordon ...
    Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often ... Read more

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  • The Sea View Has Me Again

    Uwe Johnson in Sheerness

    by Patrick Wright ...
    The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s.Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Modern Naval History

    Debates and Prospects

    by Richard Harding ...
    Specifically structured around research questions and avenues for further study, and providing the historical context to enable this further research, Modern Naval History is a key historiographical guide for students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of naval history and its contemporary relevance.Navies play an important role in the modern world, and the globalisation of economies, cultures ... Read more

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  • The English in Love

    The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

    by Claire Langhamer ...
    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Imperial nostalgia

    How the British conquered themselves

    by Peter Mitchell ...
    A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • The Last Great Quest

    Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice

    by Max Jones ...
    Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and highest continent on Earth to travel to the South Pole. Five men battled through unimaginably harsh conditions only to find the Norwegian flag had been planted at the Pole just weeks before. Captain ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Oceans Apart

    Stories of Overseas Evacuees in World War Two

    by Penny Starns ...
    From May 1940, the Children's Overseas Reception Board began to move children to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand for their own safety during the Second World War. The scheme was extremely popular, and over 200,000 applications were made within just four months, while thousands of children were also sent to be privately evacuated overseas. The 'sea-vacs', as they became known, had a ... Read more

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  • Queen and country

    Same–sex desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939–45

    by Emma Vickers ...
    Series series Gender in History
    The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution which, at least publicly, was unequivocally hostile towards same-sex activity within its ranks. Queen and country also tells a story of selective ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Dynamiters

    Irish Nationalism and Political Violence in the Wider World, 1867–1900

    by Niall Whelehan ...
    In the 1880s a New York-based faction of militant Irish nationalists conducted the first urban bombing campaign in history, targeting symbolic public buildings in Britain with homemade bombs. This book investigates the people and ideas behind this spectacular new departure in revolutionary violence. Employing a transnational approach, the book reveals connections and parallels between the ... Read more

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  • Seafaring Women Through History

    250 Years of Women at Sea

    by Jo Stanley ...
    'Jo Stanley has fearlessly explored the depths of maritime history, discovering treasures along the way. Read this book and find out why.' – Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human HistoryTraditionally, a woman's place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waves on everything from ... Read more

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