Full Description
A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines - through the prism of naval affairs - issues of nationhood and imperialism; the legacy of Nelson; the socio-cultural realities of life in ships and naval bases; and the processes of commemoration, journalism and stage-managed pageantry that plotted the interrelationship of ship and shore. This bold and original publication will be essential for undergraduate and postgraduate students of naval and maritime history. Beyond that, though, it marks an important intervention into wider historiographies that will be read by scholars from across the spectrum of social history, cultural studies and the analysis of national identity.
Contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Quintin Colville and James Davey
Part I Sociocultural analyses of the Royal Navy
1 Particular skills: warrant officers in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815
Evan Wilson
2 My dearest Tussy': coping with separation during the Napoleonic Wars (the Fremantle papers, 1800-14)
Elaine Chalus
3 The Admiralty's gaze: disciplining indecency and sodomy in the Edwardian fleet
Mary Conley
4 Navy, nation and empire: nineteenth-century photographs of the British naval community overseas
Cindy McCreery
5 Salt water in the blood: race, indigenous naval recruitment and British colonialism, 1934-41
Daniel Owen Spence
Part II Representations of the Royal Navy
6 Memorialising Anson, the fighting explorer: a case study in eighteenth-century naval commemoration and material culture
Katherine Parker
7 The apotheosis of Nelson in the National Gallery of Naval Art
Cicely Robinson
8 Naval heroism in the mid-Victorian family magazine
Barbara Korte
9 'What is the British Navy doing?' The Royal Navy's image problem in War Illustrated magazine
Jonathan Rayner
10 Patriotism and pageantry: representations of Britain's naval past at the Greenwich Night Pageant, 1933
Emma Hanna
Afterword: Britain and the sea: new histories
Jan Rüger
