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Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Name: Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
ISBN: 9781009199797

Sara Caputo

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The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793–1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars presents the first in-depth study of their employment in the Navy during this crucial period. Based on sources from across Britain, Europe, and the US, and blending quantitative, social, cultural, economic, and legal history, it challenges the very notions of 'Britishness' and 'foreignness'. The need for manpower during wartime meant that naval recruitment regularly bypassed cultural prejudice, and even legal status. Temporarily outstripped by practical considerations, these categories thus revealed their artificiality. The Navy was not simply an employer in the British maritime market, but a nodal point of global mobility. Exposing the inescapable transnational dimensions of a quintessentially national institution, the book highlights the instability of national boundaries, and the compromises and contradictions underlying the power of modern states.

カテゴリー:

History
History - Military History

年:

2022

出版社:

Cambridge University Press

言語:

english

ページ:

312

ISBN 10:

100919979X