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Privacy at Sea


Natacha Klein Käfer


This book explores the idea of privacy at sea, from early sixteenth-century maritime expansions to nineteenth-century naval developments. In this period, the sea became a focal point of political and economic ambition as technological and cultural shifts enabled a...

Publication date: 2024-01-02
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Download this eBook Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports
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Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports


Johnathan Thayer


This book argues first, that the forces of industrialization that transformed ship technology simultaneously transformed the working-class lives of merchant seamen, intensifying class conflict and producing collective networks of subversion and resistance within the...

Publication date: 2023-12-21
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Discovery, Innovation, and the Victorian Admiralty


Erika Behrisch


This book examines the British Admiralty’s engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the...

Publication date: 2022-08-23
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Download this eBook Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940
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Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940


Joanne Begiato , Karen Downing , Johnathan Thayer


This book explores ideas of masculinity in the maritime world in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. During this time commerce, politics and technology supported male privilege, while simultaneously creating the polite, consumerist and...

Publication date: 2022-01-16
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Download this eBook Bombardment, Public Safety and Resilience in English Coastal Communities during the First World War
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Bombardment, Public Safety and Resilience in English Coastal Communities during the First World War


Michael Reeve


This book makes the case for a unique coastal-urban experience of war on the home front during the First World War, focusing on case studies from the north-east of England. The use of case studies from this region problematises an often assumed national or generalised...

Publication date: 2022-01-01
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