Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History – serie
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Swedish Slavery, Diplomacy, and Culture in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2026
568 kr
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This open access book explores the story of early modern Swedish sailors and merchants captured and enslaved in the North African territory then known as ‘Barbary’ (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Morocco), and the efforts of their families, communities, and consuls to ransom them. Swedes were a …
Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940
A Sailor’s Progress?
Av Karen Downing, Johnathan Thayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1464 kr
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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 …
Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940
A Sailor’s Progress?
Av Karen Downing, Johnathan Thayer m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
1464 kr
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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 …
Bombardment, Public Safety and Resilience in English Coastal Communities during the First World War
Inbunden, 2021
1352 kr
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This book makes the case for a unique coastal-urban experience of war on the home front during the First World War, focusing on case studies from the north-east of England. The use of case studies from this region problematises an often assumed national or generalised experience of civilian life …
Discovery, Innovation, and the Victorian Admiralty
Paper Navigators
Inbunden, 2022
1352 kr
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This book examines the British Admiralty’s engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the administrators who …
Discovery, Innovation, and the Victorian Admiralty
Paper Navigators
Häftad, 2023
1352 kr
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This book examines the British Admiralty’s engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the administrators who …
Privacy at Sea
Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History
Inbunden, 2024
1464 kr
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This book explores the idea of privacy at sea, from early sixteenth-century maritime expansions to nineteenth-century naval developments. In this period, the sea became a focal point of political and economic ambition as technological and cultural shifts enabled a more extensive exploration of …
Privacy at Sea
Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History
Häftad, 2025
1464 kr
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This book explores the idea of privacy at sea, from early sixteenth-century maritime expansions to nineteenth-century naval developments. In this period, the sea became a focal point of political and economic ambition as technological and cultural shifts enabled a more extensive exploration of …
Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports
Sailors Ashore
Inbunden, 2023
1240 kr
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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 …
Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports
Sailors Ashore
Häftad, 2024
1240 kr
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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 …
1797 Naval Mutinies and Popular Protest in Britain
Negotiation through Collective Action
Inbunden, 2025
1240 kr
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This book offers a holistic re-evaluation of the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797, which immobilised the two Royal Navy fleets responsible for Britain's defence at a time when invasion seemed likely. The mutinies represent two of the most serious manifestations of collective resistance in …
