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Naval Engagements - Patriotism, Cultural Politics, and the Royal Navy 1793-1815 (Hardcover)
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Naval Engagements - Patriotism, Cultural Politics, and the Royal Navy 1793-1815 (Hardcover)
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The construction of an important element in British national
identity is explored in Naval Engagements, looking at the ways in
which the navy - a major symbol of national community - was given
meaning by a range of social groupings. The study is at once a
cultural history of national identity, a social history of naval
commemoration, and a political history of struggles over
patriotism.
Examining the place that naval symbols occupied in British wartime
political culture, Timothy Jenks argues that these were more
relevant to patriotic discourse than the more commonly explored
'apotheosis' of the Hanoverian monarchs. He establishes the
centrality of public images of admirals to the 'victory culture'
and political experience of the day, tracing efforts by groups
across the political spectrum to invest these figures with
appropriate political capital and contemporary meaning. He engages
with arguments concerning popular patriotism and the relative
cohesiveness of British society. Most importantly, the book
establishes the centrality of naval symbolism to the political
culture of Georgian Britian. At the same time, it reveals the
social practices and discourses that consistently interacted to
delimit and restrain a variety of projects ostensibly designed to
foster patriotism and national identity.
Patriotism was contested, this study argues, rather than
consensual, and British national identity in the period was
contingent, an ambivalence crucial to the manner in which naval
symbols functioned.
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