Patronage and the Royal Navy, 1775-1815
Author: Catherine Susan Beck
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Published: 2017
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Author: Catherine Susan Beck
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Published: 2017
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catherine Beck
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2025-01-21
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ISBN-13: 9781837652273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that patronage served a very useful function and should not be seen as a form of corruption. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the rich and varied nature of patronage in the British navy at the end of the long eighteenth century. Patronage underpinned naval advancement, determined where officers, seamen and dockyard workers were stationed, and fashioned their reputations. It was also a system of trust whereby an individual's connections acted as guarantors of their ability, character and suitability for a position. This book moves beyond considering patronage as being primarily about promotion to uncover its deeper social and cultural implications. Considering not just the officer class, but also warrant officers, ordinary seamen and dockyard tradesmen and workers, it reveals the fuller extent of naval patronage as it operated between both elite and non-elite men and women, within all forms of friendship, not just professional or political alliances, and beneath veneers of fashionable sensibility, duty and honour. Historians of the navy in this period are well aware of the importance of patronage, but the subject has never previously been studied in such detail. The book will be very welcome for uncovering the full nature of patronage, both for naval historians and also for cultural and social historians interested in the period more generally. Catherine Beck completed her doctorate at University College London in collaboration with the National Maritime Museum.
Author: Basil Greenhill
Publisher: Brassey's
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is an interpretation of the complete transformation of the Royal Navy which took place in the years between the Napoleonic and Russian Wars. The book sets out to show how the Admiralty, far from being obstructive to the introduction of steam power, grasped those opportunities which came with the Industrial Revolution.
Author: Neil R. Stout
Publisher: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Evan Wilson
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781783271740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho were the men who officered the Royal Navy in Nelson's day?
Author: Evan Wilson
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 690
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Blake
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781843833598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious activity flourished in the eighteenth-century navy; this book examines the reasons why and its manifestations. The Evangelical Admiral Gambier, notorious for distributing tracts to his fleet in a theatre of war, is commonly seen as a misfit in a fighting service that had scant time for fervent piety. In fact, the navy of the Revolutionaryand Napoleonic Wars showed a level of religious observance not seen since the days of Queen Anne. Evangelical laymen provided one dynamic for this change: concentrating first on public worship, they moved to active proselytism insearch of converts amongst sailors, and in a third phase developed a loose network of prayer groups in scores of ships, uniting officers and seamen in voluntary gatherings that transcended rank. This book explores the effect this new piety had on discipline and human governance, on literacy, on the development of chaplains' ministry and on the mindset of the officer corps. It also looks at the larger question of how its values were absorbed into the ethos of the navy as a whole. It draws on sources both familiar and unusual - logs, letters, minutes, memoirs, tracts and sermons, Regulations - to explain how evangelical influence affected officer corps, lower deck andAdmiralty, showing how a movement that began by promoting public worship at sea became an agency for mass evangelism through literature, preaching and off-duty gatherings, where officers and men met for shared Bible reading and prayer a mere decade after the great Mutinies.
Author: David Syrett
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 268
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Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781570032387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that included, in addition to American forces, the navies of France, Spain and the Netherlands. In this operational history of a period that proved to be a turning point for one of the world's great naval powers, David Syrett presents a saga of battles, blockades, great fleet cruises and, above all, failures and lost opportunities. He explains that the British government severely underestimated the Americans' maritime strength and how that error led to devastating consequences. The seemingly invincible navy failed to muster even one decisive victory during the extensive naval conflict.
Author: Evan Wilson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-11-06
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 3030257002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the lives and careers of naval officers across Europe at the height of the age of sail. It traces the professionalization of naval officers by exploring their preparation for life at sea and the challenges they faced while in command. It also demonstrates the uniqueness of the maritime experience, as long voyages and isolation at sea cemented their bond with naval officers across Europe while separating them from landlubbers. It depicts, in a way no previous study has, the parameters of their shared experiences—both the similarities that crossed national boundaries and connected officers, and the differences that can only be seen from an international perspective.