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Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940

A Sailor’s Progress?

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Editors:
  1. Karen Downing

    1. School of History, Australian National University School of History, Canberra, Australia

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  2. Johnathan Thayer

    1. Queens College, CUNY, Queens, USA

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  3. Joanne Begiato

    1. School of History Philosophy & Culture, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

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  • Shows that maritime masculinities were highly visible and volatile sites for negotiating cultural tensions
  • Explores the changing relationship between masculinity and modernity in the maritime sphere
  • Sheds new light on the figure of the sailor as a site of cultural negotiation

Part of the book series: Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History (GSSCMH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: A Sailor’s Progress?

    • Karen Downing, Johnathan Thayer, Joanne Begiato
    Pages 1-21

  3. Regency Masculinity? Napoleonic War Veterans and Explaining Change in the History of Masculinities

    • Karen Downing
    Pages 23-52

  7. Nascent and Fragile Masculinities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
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    2. Nelson Was No Milksop: Overcoming Frailty on Film in 1918

      • Lucie Bea Dutton
      Pages 269-287

    3. Epilogue: Manhood Found and Lost at Sea: The Loss of the Eurydice

      • Mary Conley
      Pages 289-309

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 311-313
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About this book

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 sedentary lifestyles that were perceived as damaging the minds and bodies of men. This volume explores this paradox through the figure of the sailor, a working-class man whose representation fulfilled numerous political and social ends in this period. It begins with the enduring image of romantic, heroic veterans of the Napeolonic wars, takes the reader through the challenges to masculinities created by encounters with other races and ethnicities, and with technological change, shifting geopolitical and cultural contexts, and ends with the fragile portrayal of masculinity in the imagined Nelson. In doing so, this edited collection shows that maritime masculinities (ideals, representations and the seamen themselves) were highly visible and volatile sites for negotiating the tensions of masculinities with civilisation, race, technology, patriotism, citizenship, and respectability during the long nineteenth century. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of History, Australian National University School of History, Canberra, Australia

    Karen Downing

  • Queens College, CUNY, Queens, USA

    Johnathan Thayer

  • School of History Philosophy & Culture, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Joanne Begiato

About the editors

Karen Downing is a researcher and casual lecturer at the Australian National University. Her research interests are in the history of masculinities, emotions, and culture.

Johnathan Thayer is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York. He teaches and conducts research in archival studies, public history, and the intersections of urban and maritime history in U.S. ports.

Joanne Begiato is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. She specialises in the history of masculinities, emotions, material culture, family, and marriage. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940

  • Book Subtitle: A Sailor’s Progress?

  • Editors: Karen Downing, Johnathan Thayer, Joanne Begiato

  • Series Title: Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77946-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77945-0Published: 17 January 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77948-1Published: 18 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77946-7Published: 16 January 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 313

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social History, Cultural History, Men's Studies, Modern History, Culture and Gender

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