Negotiating masculinities and modernity in the maritime world, 1815-1940 : a sailor's progress? / Karen Downing, Johnathan Thayer, Joanne Begiato, editors.
Downing, Karen, 1961- editor.; Thayer, Johnathan, editor.; Begiato, Joanne, editor.
2021
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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.
ISBN
9783030779467 (electronic bk.)
3030779467 (electronic bk.)
9783030779474
3030779475
9783030779481
3030779483
9783030779450
3030779459
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77946-7
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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English
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1 online resource : b illustrations (black and white).
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10.1007/978-3-030-77946-7 doi
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HQ1090
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305.3109034
Summary
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.
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Downing, Karen, 1961- editor.
Thayer, Johnathan, editor.
Begiato, Joanne, editor.
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Global studies in social and cultural maritime history.
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Negotiating masculinities and modernity in the maritime world, 1815-1940.
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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.

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