Maritime History and Identity
The Sea and Culture in the Modern World
Published on 25. June 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-350-16007-1 (ISBN)
Description
The sea and its relation to human life has always been a subject of fascination for historians. For the first time, this book looks at the field of Maritime History through the prism of identity, looking at how the sea has influenced the formation of identity at a national, local and individual level from the early modern age to the present. It looks at a variety of people who interacted with the sea in different ways, from merchant sailors to naval officers and on land, from dockworkers to the civilians who participated in the sea-based festivals in the Mediterranean port city of Messina.
This volume has a cultural focus, with chapters exploring the cultural construction of the 'naval hero' in literature, poetry, music and art, and an appraisal of the Japanese author and journalist Masanori, whose works had such a profound influence on Japanese national identity after the Second World War. A key focus is on the ways the Royal Navy influenced British identity at a national and regional level, but this volume also explores other countries with a strong naval tradition, such as Japan, Italy and Germany.
By bringing together a variety of themes related to identity, this book provides the first attempt to thoroughly analyse the ways in which maritime historians have engaged with the question of identity in recent years. In doing so, it provides an important and unique addition to the historiography, which will be essential reading for all scholars of maritime and naval history and those concerned with the question of identity.
This volume has a cultural focus, with chapters exploring the cultural construction of the 'naval hero' in literature, poetry, music and art, and an appraisal of the Japanese author and journalist Masanori, whose works had such a profound influence on Japanese national identity after the Second World War. A key focus is on the ways the Royal Navy influenced British identity at a national and regional level, but this volume also explores other countries with a strong naval tradition, such as Japan, Italy and Germany.
By bringing together a variety of themes related to identity, this book provides the first attempt to thoroughly analyse the ways in which maritime historians have engaged with the question of identity in recent years. In doing so, it provides an important and unique addition to the historiography, which will be essential reading for all scholars of maritime and naval history and those concerned with the question of identity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
16 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-16007-1 (9781350160071)
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Duncan Redford is Senior Research Fellow in Modern Naval History at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN). He previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowships at the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter and is the author of The Submarine: A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat (I.B.Tauris). He is the General Editor of the History of the Royal Navy series, published by I.B.Tauris in association with the National Museum of the Royal Navy.
Content
Introduction
Duncan Redford
Part I. Navies and National Identity:
The Naval Hero and British National Identity 1707-1750
James Davey
2. It? Masanori, the Imperial Navy and Japan's Post-war National Identity
Alessio Patalano
3. The Royal Navy, Sea Blindness and British National Identity
Duncan Redford
Part II. The Sea and Regional Identities.
4. Like the Crew of a Ship: The Sea and Identity in Modern Messina
Guiseppe Restifo
5. The Bridge, the River and the Ocean Sea: Concepts of Space in the Seventeenth-Century London Maritime Community
Richard J. Blakemore
6. The Small Country as a Maritime Great Power: The Case of Norway
Tom Kristiansen and Roald Gjelsten
7. Regional Voices: National Causes 1930-1945
Victoria Carolan
Part III. Corporate Identities in the Naval and Maritime Sector
8. The Other Side of an Amphibian's Identity: British Marines on Land, 1755-1802
Britt Zerbe
9. Untergang and the Corporate Identity of the Imperial German Navy in the World War I
Mark Jones
Part IV. The Sea and the Identity of the Individual Seafarer.
10. Defying Conformity: Using Tattoos to Express Individuality in the Victorian Royal Navy
Cori Convertito-Farrar
11. They Thought they were Normal - and Queens too: Gay Seafarers on British Liners 1950-1985
Jo Stanley
Part V. Navies and Imperial Identities.
12. From Trafalgar to Santiago: The Spanish Navy and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza
13. 'Of the Blood of Sea Peoples': Navalism and 'Greater Britain' 1897-1914
John C. Mitcham
14. Identifying 'Seagoing Races': Britain's Colonial Naval Volunteers and the Forging of Identity during World War II
Daniel Spence
Duncan Redford
Part I. Navies and National Identity:
The Naval Hero and British National Identity 1707-1750
James Davey
2. It? Masanori, the Imperial Navy and Japan's Post-war National Identity
Alessio Patalano
3. The Royal Navy, Sea Blindness and British National Identity
Duncan Redford
Part II. The Sea and Regional Identities.
4. Like the Crew of a Ship: The Sea and Identity in Modern Messina
Guiseppe Restifo
5. The Bridge, the River and the Ocean Sea: Concepts of Space in the Seventeenth-Century London Maritime Community
Richard J. Blakemore
6. The Small Country as a Maritime Great Power: The Case of Norway
Tom Kristiansen and Roald Gjelsten
7. Regional Voices: National Causes 1930-1945
Victoria Carolan
Part III. Corporate Identities in the Naval and Maritime Sector
8. The Other Side of an Amphibian's Identity: British Marines on Land, 1755-1802
Britt Zerbe
9. Untergang and the Corporate Identity of the Imperial German Navy in the World War I
Mark Jones
Part IV. The Sea and the Identity of the Individual Seafarer.
10. Defying Conformity: Using Tattoos to Express Individuality in the Victorian Royal Navy
Cori Convertito-Farrar
11. They Thought they were Normal - and Queens too: Gay Seafarers on British Liners 1950-1985
Jo Stanley
Part V. Navies and Imperial Identities.
12. From Trafalgar to Santiago: The Spanish Navy and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza
13. 'Of the Blood of Sea Peoples': Navalism and 'Greater Britain' 1897-1914
John C. Mitcham
14. Identifying 'Seagoing Races': Britain's Colonial Naval Volunteers and the Forging of Identity during World War II
Daniel Spence