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        Shaping the Royal Navy
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Shaping the Royal Navy

        Technology, authority and naval architecture, c.1830–1906

        by Don Leggett

        The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain's warships were her first line of defence, and their transformation dominated political, engineering and scientific discussions. They were the products of engineering ingenuity, political controversies, naval ideologies and the fight for authority in nineteenth-century Britain. Shaping the Royal Navy provides the first cultural history of technology, authority and the Royal Navy in the years of Pax Britannica. It places the story firmly within the currents of British history to reconstruct the controversial and high-profile nature of naval architecture. The technological transformation of the Navy dominated the British government and engineering communities. This book explores its history, revealing how ship design became a modern science, the ways that actors competed for authority within the British state and why the nature of naval power changed.

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        Health, medicine, and the sea
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2012

        Health, medicine, and the sea

        Australian voyages, c.1815–60

        by Katherine Foxhall

        During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, medicine and the sea follows these people on a fascinating journey around half the globe to give a rich account of the creation of lay and professional medical knowledge in an ever-changing maritime environment. From consumptive convicts who pleaded that going to sea was their only chance of recovery, to sailors who performed macabre 'medical' rituals during equatorial ceremonies off the African coast, to surgeons' formal experiments with scurvy in the southern hemisphere oceans, to furious letters from quarantined emigrants just a few miles from Sydney, this wide-ranging and evocative study brings the experience and meaning of voyaging to life. Katherine Foxhall makes an important contribution to the history of medicine, imperialism and migration which will appeal to students and researchers alike. ;

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        Shaping the Royal Navy
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2015

        Shaping the Royal Navy

        Technology, authority and naval architecture, c.1830–1906

        by Don Leggett

        The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain's warships were her first line of defence, and their transformation dominated political, engineering and scientific discussions. They were the products of engineering ingenuity, political controversies, naval ideologies and the fight for authority in nineteenth-century Britain. Shaping the Royal Navy provides the first cultural history of technology, authority and the Royal Navy in the years of Pax Britannica. It places the story firmly within the currents of British history to reconstruct the controversial and high-profile nature of naval architecture. The technological transformation of the Navy dominated the British government and engineering communities. This book explores its history, revealing how ship design became a modern science, the ways that actors competed for authority within the British state and why the nature of naval power changed. ;

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        Health, medicine, and the sea
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2018

        Health, medicine, and the sea

        Australian voyages, c.1815–60

        by Katherine Foxhall

        During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, medicine and the sea follows these people on a fascinating journey around half the globe to give a rich account of the creation of lay and professional medical knowledge in an ever-changing maritime environment. From consumptive convicts who pleaded that going to sea was their only chance of recovery, to sailors who performed macabre 'medical' rituals during equatorial ceremonies off the African coast, to surgeons' formal experiments with scurvy in the southern hemisphere oceans, to furious letters from quarantined emigrants just a few miles from Sydney, this wide-ranging and evocative study brings the experience and meaning of voyaging to life. Katherine Foxhall makes an important contribution to the history of medicine, imperialism and migration which will appeal to students and researchers alike.

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        Mutinous memories
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2019

        Mutinous memories

        A subjective history of French military protest in 1919

        by Matt Perry, Maire Cross

        This book explores the mutinies in the French infantry and navy in 1919. This revolt stretched from France's intervention against the Soviet Union through to France's naval ports. This research is based on official records and the testimony of dozens of mutineers. It is the first study to try to understand the world of the mutineers assessing their own words for the traces of their sensory perceptions, their emotions, their thought processes. It also considers how their memories persisted after the events. It shows that the conventional understanding of the mutinies as simple war-weariness and low morale as inadequate. This text will interest students, general readers and scholars of both the Great War and its contentious aftermath. It will contribute to the growing interest in 1919 as the Twentieth Century's most unruly year.

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        Mutinous memories
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2019

        Mutinous memories

        A subjective history of French military protest in 1919

        by Matt Perry, Maire Cross

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        Mutinous memories
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2019

        Mutinous memories

        A subjective history of French military protest in 1919

        by Matt Perry, Maire Cross

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        Imperial steam
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2023

        Imperial steam

        Modernity on the sea route to India, 1837-74

        by Jonathan Stafford

        Imperial steam explores the early history of steamship travel to Britain's imperial East. Drawing upon the wealth of voyage narratives which were produced in the first decades of the new route to India, the book examines the thoughts, emotions and experiences of those whose lives were caught up with the imperial project. The potent symbolism of the steamship, which exceeded the often harsh realities of travel, provided a convincing narrative for coming to terms with Britain's global empire - not just for passengers, but for those at home who consumed the ubiquitous accounts of steamship travel. Imperial steam thus contributes to our understanding of the role of imperial networks in the production of the British imperial world view.

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        Imperial steam
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2023

        Imperial steam

        Modernity on the sea route to India, 1837-74

        by Jonathan Stafford

        Imperial steam explores the early history of steamship travel to Britain's imperial East. Drawing upon the wealth of voyage narratives which were produced in the first decades of the new route to India, the book examines the thoughts, emotions and experiences of those whose lives were caught up with the imperial project. The potent symbolism of the steamship, which exceeded the often harsh realities of travel, provided a convincing narrative for coming to terms with Britain's global empire - not just for passengers, but for those at home who consumed the ubiquitous accounts of steamship travel. Imperial steam thus contributes to our understanding of the role of imperial networks in the production of the British imperial world view.

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        Imperial steam
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2023

        Imperial steam

        Modernity on the sea route to India, 1837-74

        by Jonathan Stafford

        Imperial steam explores the early history of steamship travel to Britain's imperial East. Drawing upon the wealth of voyage narratives which were produced in the first decades of the new route to India, the book examines the thoughts, emotions and experiences of those whose lives were caught up with the imperial project. The potent symbolism of the steamship, which exceeded the often harsh realities of travel, provided a convincing narrative for coming to terms with Britain's global empire - not just for passengers, but for those at home who consumed the ubiquitous accounts of steamship travel. Imperial steam thus contributes to our understanding of the role of imperial networks in the production of the British imperial world view.

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        Mutinous memories
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2021

        Mutinous memories

        A subjective history of French military protest in 1919

        by Matt Perry, Maire Cross

        This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919. Based on official records and the testimony of dozens of participants, it is the first study to try to understand the world of the mutineers. Examining their words for the traces of sensory perceptions, emotions and thought processes, it reveals that the conventional understanding of the mutinies as the result of simple war-weariness and low morale is inadequate. In fact, an emotional gulf separated officers and the ranks, who simply did not speak the same language. The revolt entailed emotional sequences ending in a deep ambivalence and sense of despair or regret. Taking this into account, the book considers how mutineer memories persisted after the events in the face of official censorship, repression and the French Communist Party's co-option of the mutiny.

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        The devil’s highway
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2025

        The devil’s highway

        Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c.1850-1900

        by Brad Beaven

        Between 1850 and 1900, Ratcliffe Highway was the pulse of maritime London. Sailors from every corner of the globe found solace, and sometimes trouble, in this bustling district. However, for social investigators, it was a place of fascination and fear as it harboured chaotic and dangerous 'exotic' communities. Sailortowns were transient, cosmopolitan and working class in character and provide us with an insight into class, race and gendered relations. They were contact zones of heightened interaction where multi-ethnic subaltern cultures met, sometimes negotiated and at other times clashed with one another. The book argues that despite these challenges sailortown was a distinctive and functional working-class community that was self-regulating and self-moderating. The book uncovers a robust sailortown community in which an urban-maritime culture shaped a sense of themselves and the traditions and conventions that governed subaltern behaviour in the district.

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        The Royal and Russian Navies
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2025

        The Royal and Russian Navies

        Cooperation, competition and confrontation

        by David Fields, Robert Avery

        A definitive, illuminating history of cooperation between the Royal Navy and Russian Navy from 1988 to 2014, providing a unique insight derived from personal observations of the authors and others about the Russian Navy, its strategy, people, equipment and how they operate. The book provides lessons learned by both sides during this period and demonstrates the importance of dialogue as a route to reducing the risks of miscalculation and misunderstanding. The authors also remain clear eyed about the threats and challenges the Russian Navy poses, as it seeks to both confront and compete with Euro-Atlantic navies. As such it is essential reading not only for military personnel and policy makers but for all those who have a general interest in Russia, and how it projects power and protects its national interests through the use of its navy.

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        The Royal and Russian Navies
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2025

        The Royal and Russian Navies

        Cooperation, competition and confrontation

        by David Fields, Robert Avery

        Before the political rupture between Russia and the West, resulting from Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and subsequent invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there was a complex programme of military cooperation between the Royal Navy and Russian Navy. Since 1988, the Royal Navy, first with the Soviet Navy and then the Russian Federation Navy, developed a close working relationship, signing a Memorandum of Understanding in 1998 on naval cooperation. The book examines this unique period of history and the lessons that were learned by both sides about how their respective navies operated, and the lessons drawn by Russia about the application of its maritime power in protecting its national interests globally. In light of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the deep divisions between the Euro Atlantic community and Russia, the maritime environment is an important arena in which the UK will be defending itself against Russia and its strengthening naval forces, while also deterring it, and through which military to military dialogue could be re-established. This fascinating period of naval cooperation provides lessons for all three elements of this defence engagement with Russia, especially looking forward into an uncertain future.

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      • Strong to Save
        Regional & national history
        July 2017

        Strong to Save

        Maritime Mission in Hong Kong from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners' Club

        by Stephen DAVIES

        Tracing its origins back to 1822 in Whampoa, the Mariners’ Club in Hong Kong was established to meet a specific need for an Anglo-Chinese society defined by that most dubious of activities, seafaring. Its creation was anything but straightforward, and in this can be seen the mutable and often tortuous relations between the various religious bodies, the local population, the transient sailors, the emerging captains of industry, and the growing regulatory reach of the colonial government. The club evolved through many embodiments and witnessed the growth of Hong Kong from a collection of mat-sheds on the foreshore, through colony to its current status. Throughout its turbulent past it has been occasionally marginalized but has always served as an important base for the key actors in the main commercial activity in Hong Kong: seafarers. This is a history of one of the most enduring institutions of Hong Kong, and the first of its kind. Using the Club’s own records as well as a wide range of sources both from within Hong Kong and from the seafaring world at large, this is a comprehensive account of the life of the Missions, the tenancy of the different chaplains, managers, and stewards, the changes in seafaring practices and shipping, and the transformation of Hong Kong itself.

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      • The Maritime Silk Road/海上丝绸之路
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2014

        The Maritime Silk Road/海上丝绸之路

        by State Administration of Cultural Heritage/

        Maritime Silk Road, also called as “China Road”, is an extension of its overland counterpart. Along the road, large quantities of custom-made chinaware were sold and transported to Europe, including, among others, blue-and-white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty that catered to Islamic love of “white and blue”. The Maritime Silk Road reached its peak in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, gold and silver as well as copper coin were brought by the maritime businessmen to overseas and there became means of payment, and ancient Chinese coins have been found as far as in India and Arabic nations.

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      • The Man Who Was Robinson Crusoe
        Biography: historical, political & military

        The Man Who Was Robinson Crusoe

        by Richard Wilson

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      • Antarctica Unveiled
        Teaching, Language & Reference

        Antarctica Unveiled

        Scott's First Expedition and the Quest for the Unknown Continent

        by David E Yelverton

        Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and An Introduction by Robert Swan, OBE. A three-dimensional account, almost entirely based on original sources, that will ring true to those who have travelled in the footsteps of the pioneers, this book tells the full story of an expedition that has been largely erased from public perception by the drama of Scott's second expedition a decade later. The book's many new insights into an historic British achievement, and its immediate aftermath, should allow an altogether fairer estimation of its ranking in the annals of 20th Century exploration than it has been accorded in the last twenty years. Hampered by an Admiralty, jealous of civilian control of an expedition for which they would have to provide men, and restricted by budgetary restraints unknown to the Germans, whose parallel expedition, funded almost entirely by their government, is recounted in summary form, this was an expedition that: first penetrated the interior of Antarctica, opening the way to a century of research, in the region of its discoveries, that has yielded benefits to everyone on the planet; discovered more about Antarctica than six other expeditions that went south at the dawn of the 20th century; brought back key evidence of the existence of an Antarctic continent rather than a polar archipelago, at that time the greatest prize for geographers and scientists alike; effectively located the 'lost' South Magnetic Pole, so vital to southern hemisphere navigation before the era of satellites; was anything but the prisoner of outdated naval tradition, the methods adopted being almost entirely those expounded by the Norwegian explorer, Nansen, who described its results as 'magnificent' -- even the number of dogs used was based on the famous explorer's North Pole attempt.

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