Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

ISBN-13: 9781009199797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Sara (University of Cambridge) Caputo

Opis

Explores foreign seamen's employment in the British Royal Navy of the French Wars, and deconstructs the meanings of 'foreignness' itself.

Recenzje

'This book shows the signal importance of foreign sailors to the British Navy in the Age of Revolutions, while offering original interpretations of wartime manning policies, the impressment debates, race and ethnicity on the ships, and the meaning of national belonging. This is one of the best transnational histories I have read.' Margaret R. Hunt, Uppsala University

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The State: 1. Countable 'foreigners': birthplace and demographic profiles; 2. 'Sacred and indestructible' bonds: alien seamen, subjecthood, and the Navy; Part II. The Nation: 3. A Babel and a Gehenna: languages and religions; 4. 'Complexions of every varied hue': racial beliefs, biopower, and acclimatisation; 5. 'They cannot keep the sea beyond a passage': the Royal Navy and recruitment in the Two Sicilies; 6. 'From among the Northern nations alone': Dutchmen, Danes, and Norwegians in the fleet; Part III. Displacement: 7. Mercenaries, migrants, and refugees: Navy crews as 'motley crews'; Conclusion.