Foreign Jack Tars

Foreign Jack Tars

Author: Sara Caputo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-11-17

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1009199803

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The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793–1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars presents the first in-depth study of their employment in the Navy during this crucial period. Based on sources from across Britain, Europe, and the US, and blending quantitative, social, cultural, economic, and legal history, it challenges the very notions of 'Britishness' and 'foreignness'. The need for manpower during wartime meant that naval recruitment regularly bypassed cultural prejudice, and even legal status. Temporarily outstripped by practical considerations, these categories thus revealed their artificiality. The Navy was not simply an employer in the British maritime market, but a nodal point of global mobility. Exposing the inescapable transnational dimensions of a quintessentially national institution, the book highlights the instability of national boundaries, and the compromises and contradictions underlying the power of modern states.


Jack Tar vs. John Bull

Jack Tar vs. John Bull

Author: Jesse Lemisch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1317731905

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This classic study explores the role of merchant seamen in precipitating the American revolution. It analyzes the participation of seamen in impressment riots, the Stamp Act Riot, the Battle of Golden Hill, and other incidents. The book describes these events and explores the social world of the seamen, offering explanations for their actions. Focusing on the culture, politics, and experiences of early American seamen, this legendary study played an important role in the development of histories of the common people and has inspired generations of social and early American historians. Lemisch's later related article, Jack Tar in the Streets, was named one of the ten most important articles ever published in the prestigious William and Mary Quarterly. Long unavailable, this edition includes an index and an appreciative foreword by Marcus Rediker, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1962)


Jack Tar's Story

Jack Tar's Story

Author: Myra C. Glenn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139490184

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Jack Tar's Story examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore contested meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic. It is the first study to use various kinds of institutional sources, including crew lists, ships' logs, impressment records, to document the stories sailors told. It focuses on how mariner authors remembered/interpreted various events and experiences, including the War of 1812, the Haitian Revolution, South America's wars of independence, British impressment, flogging on the high seas, roistering, and religious conversion. This book straddles different fields of scholarship and suggests how their concerns intersect or resonate with each other: the history of print culture, the study of autobiographical writing, and the historiography of seafaring life and of masculinity in antebellum America.


Jack Tar Vs. John Bull

Jack Tar Vs. John Bull

Author: Jesse Lemisch

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780815327882

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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


From Jack Tar to Union Jack

From Jack Tar to Union Jack

Author: Mary A. Conley

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1526117657

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Jack Tar to Union Jack examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Through analysis of sources that include courts-martial cases, sailors’ own writings, and the HMS Pinafore, Conley charts new depictions of naval manhood during the Age of Empire, a period which witnessed the radical transformation of the navy, the intensification of imperial competition, the democratisation of British society, and the advent of mass culture. Jack Tar to Union Jack argues that popular representations of naval men increasingly reflected and informed imperial masculine ideals in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Conley shows how the British Bluejacket as both patriotic defender and dutiful husband and father stood in sharp contrast to the stereotypic image of the brave but bawdy tar of the Georgian navy. This book will be essential reading for students of British imperial history, naval and military history, and gender studies.


Jack Tars and Commodores

Jack Tars and Commodores

Author: William M. Fowler

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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"Jack Tars and Commodores" is a lively and authoritative account of the United States Navy from Independence throught the War of 1812.