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Men of Honour
Author | : Adam Nicolson |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105120018002 |
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The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events. In Men of Honour, Adam Nicolson takes one of the greatest identifiable heroes in British history, Horatio Nelson, and examines the broader themes of heroism, violence and virtue. Trafalgar gripped the nineteenth century imagination like no other battle: it was a moment of both transcendent fulfilment and unmatched despair. It was a drama of such violence and sacrifice that the concept of total war may be argued to start from there. It finished the global ambitions of a European tyrant but culminated in the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson, the greatest hero of the era. This book fuses the immediate intensity of the battle with the deeper currents that were running at the time. It has a three-part framework: the long, slow six hour morning before the battle; the afternoon itself of terror, death and destruction; and the shocked, exultant and sobered aftermath ...
Restless Men
Author | : K. Downing |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2014-06-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137348951 |
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Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing reveals how such men took their tensions with them to Australia, so that the colonies never were a solution to restless men's anxieties.
The Napoleonic Wars
Author | : Alexander Mikaberidze |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 977 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Geopolitics |
ISBN | : 9780199951062 |
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The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.
Britain and the Sea
Author | : Glen O'Hara |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2010-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781350306950 |
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O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day. This all-encompassing account covers individual seafarers, ship-borne migration, warfare and the maritime economy, as well as the British people's maritime ideas and self perception throughout the centuries.
Empire of the Deep
Author | : Ben Wilson |
Publsiher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 2013-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780297864097 |
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The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism. The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Yet, as Ben Wilson shows, there was nothing inevitable about this rise to maritime domination, nor was it ever an easy path. EMPIRE OF THE DEEP: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH NAVY also reveals how our naval history has shaped us in more subtle and surprising ways - our language, culture, politics and national character all owe a great debt to this conquest of the seas. This is a gripping, fresh take on our national story.
Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution
Author | : Clare Anderson,Niklas Frykman,Lex Heerma van Voss,Marcus Rediker |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107689329 |
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This volume explores mutiny and maritime radicalism in its full geographic extent during the Age of Revolution.
Youth Heroism and War Propaganda
Author | : D. A. B. Ronald |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781472523839 |
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Youth, Heroism and Naval Propaganda explores how the young maritime hero became a major new figure of war propaganda in the second half of the long eighteenth century. At that time, Britain was searching for a new national identity, and the young maritime hero and his exploits conjured images of vigour, energy, enthusiasm and courage. Adopted as centrepiece in a campaign of concerted war-propaganda leading up to the Battle of Trafalgar, the young hero came to represent much that was quintessentially British at this major turning-point in the Nation's history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, this study shows how the young hero gave maritime youth a symbolic power which it had never before had in Britain. It offers a valuable contribution to the field of British military and naval history, as well as the study of British identity, youth, heroism and propaganda.
Eighteenth Century Women Writers and the Gentleman s Liberation Movement
Author | : Megan A. Woodworth |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317145424 |
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In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their heroines and how they engage with contemporary political debates, particularly those relating to the French Revolution. Megan Woodworth argues that women writers' ideas about their own liberty are also present in their treatment of male characters. In positing a 'Gentleman's Liberation Movement,' she suggests that Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen all used their creative powers to liberate men from the very institutions and ideas about power, society, and gender that promote the subjection of women. Their writing juxtaposes the role of women in the private spheres with men's engagement in political structures and successive wars for independence (the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars). The failures associated with fighting these wars and the ideological debates surrounding them made plain, at least to these women writers, that in denying the universality of these natural freedoms, their liberating effects would be severely compromised. Thus, to win the same rights for which men fought, women writers sought to remake men as individuals freed from the tyranny of their patriarchal inheritance.