Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815-1940 - A Sailor's Progress? (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History
Release date:	2023
First published:	2021
Editors:	Karen Downing • Johnathan Thayer • Joanne Begiato
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	313
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-077948-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	3-03-077948-3
Barcode:	9783030779481

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