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Résumé :
List of figures and tables Notes on contributors Introduction Quintin Colville and James Davey Part I Sociocultural analyses of the Royal Navy 1 Particular skills: warrant officers in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 Evan Wilson 2 My dearest Tussy': coping with separation during the Napoleonic Wars (the Fremantle papers, 1800-14) Elaine Chalus 3 The Admiralty's gaze: disciplining indecency and sodomy in the Edwardian fleet Mary Conley 4 Navy, nation and empire: nineteenth-century photographs of the British naval community overseas Cindy McCreery 5 Salt water in the blood: race, indigenous naval recruitment and British colonialism, 1934-41 Daniel Owen Spence Part II Representations of the Royal Navy 6 Memorialising Anson, the fighting explorer: a case study in eighteenth-century naval commemoration and material culture Katherine Parker 7 The apotheosis of Nelson in the National Gallery of Naval Art Cicely Robinson 8 Naval heroism in the mid-Victorian family magazine Barbara Korte 9 'What is the British Navy doing?' The Royal Navy's image problem in War Illustrated magazine Jonathan Rayner 10 Patriotism and pageantry: representations of Britain's naval past at the Greenwich Night Pageant, 1933 Emma Hanna Afterword: Britain and the sea: new histories Jan R?ger...

Biographie:
Quintin Colville is Senior Curator: Research at Royal Museums Greenwich, Visiting Professor at the University of Portsmouth, and Research Fellow at the University of York James Davey is Lecturer in Naval and Maritime History at the University of Exeter...

Sommaire:
A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines - through the prism of naval affairs - issues of nationhood and imperialism...