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Negotiating masculinities and modernity in the maritime world, 1815-1940 : a sailor's progress? / Karen Downing, Johnathan Thayer, Joanne Begiato, editors.

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Book
Contributor:
Downing, Karen, 1961- editor.
Thayer, Johnathan, editor.
Begiato, Joanne, editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
Series:
Global studies in social and cultural maritime history.
Global studies in social and cultural maritime history
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Masculinity--Social aspects--History--19th century.
Masculinity.
Masculinity--Social aspects--History--20th century.
Men--Identity.
Men.
Sailors--Social life and customs--19th century.
Sailors.
Sailors--Social life and customs--20th century.
Ocean and civilization.
Sailors--Social life and customs.
Masculinity--Social aspects.
History.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : b illustrations (black and white).
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction - Joanne Begiato, Karen Downing and Steven Gray
Part I: Nineteenth century masculinities
Regency masculinity? The place of Napoleonic War veterans in the history of masculinities Karen Downing
A splendid body of men : Fishermen as model males in late-nineteenth-century British imagery Mary ONeill
Part II: Civilisation and race
He was possessed of the very first natural abilities : American mariners construction of masculinity in the Early Republic Dane A. Morrison
The ocean, the Orient, and manly drama: The persuasive masculinities on display in the North Pacific that influenced the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa Bruce Makoto Arnold
Part III: Technological change
Displaying the wooden walls of Old England: The HMS Foudroyant as a monument to lost skills and manhood, 1892-1897 Alexa Price
Bachelor sailors? Negotiating masculinity, mobility, and domesticity in c. 1880s to the 1930s Finland - Laika Nevalainen
Row, row, row your boat: How the Marine Corps engendered landing parties in the US Department of the Navy, 1898-1934 Heather Venable
Part IV: Patriotism, citizenship and respectability
From prodigal sons to emblems of empire: Maritime manhood and labour reform in the Wilhelmine Merchant Fleet David Brandon Dennis
Mapping masculinities in New York Citys sailortown Johnathan Thayer
The shrine of manly virtues: Heroic masculinity and HMS Victory in the 1920s Sarah Westbury
Part V: Nascent and Fragile masculinities
Masculinity, the navalist leagues and the Anglo-German naval race Neil Fleming
There will never be another hero like Nelson: Overcoming frailty in 1918 Lucie Dutton
Conclusions and future directions Quintin Colville.
Notes:
Includes index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Negotiating masculinities and modernity in the maritime world, 1815-1940.
ISBN:
9783030779467
3030779467
9783030779474
3030779475
9783030779481
3030779483
Publisher Number:
99989830485
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