Foreign Jack Tars

Foreign Jack Tars

The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Caputo, Sara

Cambridge University Press

11/2022

320

Dura

Inglês

9781009199797

15 a 20 dias

600

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Introduction; Part I. The State: 1. Countable 'foreigners': birthplace and demographic profiles; 2. 'Sacred and indestructible' bonds: alien seamen, subjecthood, and the Navy; Part II. The Nation: 3. A Babel and a Gehenna: languages and religions; 4. 'Complexions of every varied hue': racial beliefs, biopower, and acclimatisation; 5. 'They cannot keep the sea beyond a passage': the Royal Navy and recruitment in the Two Sicilies; 6. 'From among the Northern nations alone': Dutchmen, Danes, and Norwegians in the fleet; Part III. Displacement: 7. Mercenaries, migrants, and refugees: Navy crews as 'motley crews'; Conclusion.
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