Jack Tar Vs. John Bull
Author: Jesse Lemisch
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780815327882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Jack Tar in History
Author: Colin D. Howell
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJack Tar
Author: Lesley Adkins
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 0748112111
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An enthralling book' Sunday Telegraph 'Fascinating' Sunday Times The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy invincible through skill, courage and sheer determination. They cast a long shadow, with millions of their descendants alive today, and many of their everyday expressions, such as 'skyscraper' and 'loose cannon', continuing to enrich our language. Yet their contribution is frequently overlooked, while the officers became celebrities. JACK TAR gives these forgotten men a voice in an exciting, enthralling, often unexpected and always entertaining picture of what their life was really like during this age of sail. Through personal letters, diaries and other manuscripts, the emotions and experiences of these people are explored, from the dread of press-gangs, shipwreck and disease, to the exhilaration of battle, grog, prize money and prostitutes. JACK TAR is an authoritative and gripping account that will be compulsive reading for anyone wanting to discover the vibrant and sometimes stark realities of this wooden world at war.
Sons of the Waves
Author: Stephen Taylor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-05-19
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 0300252617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain’s trade, exploration, and warfare British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797 mutinies, these "sons of the waves" held the nation’s destiny in their calloused hands.
To Swear like a Sailor
Author: Paul A. Gilje
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-02-15
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 131648310X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.
From Jack Tar to Union Jack
Author: Mary A. Conley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-03-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1526117657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJack 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.
Merchant Vessels of the United States
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 1700
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDecisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 482
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Compiled from Official gazette. Beginning with 1876, the volumes have included also decisions of United States courts, decisions of Secretary of Interior, opinions of Attorney-General, and important decisions of state courts in relation to patents, trade-marks, etc. 1869-94, not in Congressional set." Checklist of U. S. public documents, 1789-1909, p. 530.
