Автор: The National Archives Название: How to Survive in the Georgian Navy: A Sailor`s Guide ISBN: 1472830873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472830876 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 9890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This title is an exploration of a life at sea in the time of Captain Cook and Admiral Nelson, covering topics as wide-ranging as science, exploration, mutiny, and discipline.
Rigidly organised and harshly disciplined, the Georgian Royal Navy was an orderly and efficient fighting force which played a major role in Great Britain's wars of the 18th and early 19th centuries. This concise book explores what it was like to be a sailor in the Georgian Navy - focusing on the period from 1714 to 1820, this book examines the Navy within its wider historical, national, organisational and military context, and reveals exactly what it took to survive a life in its service. It looks at how a seaman could join the Royal Navy, including the notorious 'press gangs'; what was meant by 'learning the ropes'; and the severe punishments that could be levied for even minor misdemeanors as a result of the Articles of War. Military tactics, including manning the guns and tactics for fending off pirates are also revealed, as is the problem of maintaining a healthy diet at sea - and the steps that sailors themselves could take to avoid the dreaded scurvy.
Covering other fascinating topics as wide-ranging as exploration, mutiny, storms, shipwrecks, and women on board ships, this 'Sailor's Guide' explores the lives of the Navy's officers and sailors, using extracts from contemporary documents and writings to reconstruct their experiences in vivid detail.
Автор: Balogun Oluwakemi M. Название: Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation ISBN: 1503610977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503610972 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the Global South, and Nigeria is one of the countries at the forefront of this trend. In a country with over 1,000 reported pageants, these events are more than superficial forms of entertainment. Beauty Diplomacy takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are transformed into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about gender and power, ethnicity and belonging, and a rapidly changing articulation of Nigerian nationhood. Drawing on four case studies of beauty pageants, this book examines how Nigeria's changing position in the global political economy and existing cultural tensions inform varied forms of embodied nationalism, where contestants are expected to integrate recognizable elements of Nigerian cultural identity while also conveying a narrative of a newly-emerging, globally-relevant Nigeria. Oluwakemi M. Balogun critically examines Nigerian pageants in the context of major transitions within the nation-state, using these events as a lens through which to understand Nigerian national identity and international relations.
Автор: Harris Amy Название: Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England: Share and Share Alike ISBN: 0719087376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719087370 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 189290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book examines the impact siblings had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature, and portraiture it argues that siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and practiced inequalities. -- .
Автор: James Baker Название: The Business of Satirical Prints in Late-Georgian England ISBN: 3319499882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319499888 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 79190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Acknowledgements.- List of Tables/Figures.- Chapter 1: Beginnings.- Chapter 2: Scandal.- Chapter 3: Production.- Chapter 4: People.- Chapter 5: Trade Networks.- Chapter 6: The Physical Marketplace.- Chapter 7: The Shops.- Chapter 8: Satiric Stock.- Bibliography.- Index
Автор: Harris, Amy Название: Siblinghood and social relations in georgian england ISBN: 1784993646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784993641 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 43610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book examines the impact siblings had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature, and portraiture it argues that siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and practiced inequalities. -- .
Автор: Baker James Название: The Business of Satirical Prints in Late-Georgian England ISBN: 3319842935 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319842936 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Acknowledgements.- List of Tables/Figures.- Chapter 1: Beginnings.- Chapter 2: Scandal.- Chapter 3: Production.- Chapter 4: People.- Chapter 5: Trade Networks.- Chapter 6: The Physical Marketplace.- Chapter 7: The Shops.- Chapter 8: Satiric Stock.- Bibliography.- Index
Автор: Alan Mackintosh Название: The Patent Medicines Industry in Georgian England ISBN: 3319697773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319697772 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of the printed word in that era.
Автор: Matthew Niblett Название: Prophecy and the Politics of Salvation in Late Georgian England: The Theology and Apocalyptic Vision of Joanna Southcott ISBN: 1780768788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780768786 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Joanna Southcott (1750 - 1814) remains one of the most significant and extraordinary religious figures of her era. In an age of reason and enlightenment, her apocalyptic prophecies attracted tens of thousands of followers, and she captured international attention with her promise to bear a divine child. In this new intellectual biography Matthew Niblett unravels Southcott's writings, her context and her message to demonstrate why the prophetess was such a magnetic figure and to highlight the significance of her role in British religious history. Using a wide range of contemporary sources, this revealing study explains the formation of Southcott's apocalyptic theology, her treatment of the Bible, her relation with the Church, the network of clerical supporters she used and the striking originality of her message. In so doing, this book shines fresh light on religion and the politics of salvation in late Georgian England.
Автор: Holloway, Sally (vice Chancellor`s Research Fellow In History & History Of Art, Oxford Brookes University) Название: Game of love in georgian england ISBN: 019882307X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198823070 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 66530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, often imagined as a tactical game. Sally Holloway uses a rich selection of material and written sources to explore the emotional experience of courtship between Georgian men and women, how love developed into a commercial industry, and what happened when engagements went awry.
