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Informationen zum Autor Duncan Redford is a British Naval Historian affiliated with the Ministry of Defence.The sea and its relation to human life has always been a subject of fascination for historians. For the first time, this book looks at the field of Maritime History through the prism of identity - imperial, national, regional, gender and religious - from maritime great powers such as Britain, Germany and Japan to smaller players. Zusammenfassung The sea and its relation to human life has always been a subject of fascination for historians. For the first time, this book looks at the field of Maritime History through the prism of identity, looking at how the sea has influenced the formation of identity at a national, local and individual level from the early modern age to the present. It looks at a variety of people who interacted with the sea in different ways, from merchant sailors to naval officers and on land, from dockworkers to the civilians who participated in the sea-based festivals in the Mediterranean port city of Messina.This volume has a cultural focus, with chapters exploring the cultural construction of the 'naval hero' in literature, poetry, music and art, and an appraisal of the Japanese author and journalist Masanori, whose works had such a profound influence on Japanese national identity after the Second World War. A key focus is on the ways the Royal Navy influenced British identity at a national and regional level, but this volume also explores other countries with a strong naval tradition, such as Japan, Italy and Germany.By bringing together a variety of themes related to identity, this book provides the first attempt to thoroughly analyse the ways in which maritime historians have engaged with the question of identity in recent years. In doing so, it provides an important and unique addition to the historiography, which will be essential reading for all scholars of maritime and naval history and those concerned with the question of identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Duncan RedfordPart I. Navies and National Identity:The Naval Hero and British National Identity 1707-1750 James Davey2. It? Masanori, the Imperial Navy and Japan’s Post-war National IdentityAlessio Patalano3. The Royal Navy, Sea Blindness and British National Identity Duncan RedfordPart II. The Sea and Regional Identities.4. Like the Crew of a Ship: The Sea and Identity in Modern Messina Guiseppe Restifo5. The Bridge, the River and the Ocean Sea: Concepts of Space in the Seventeenth-Century London Maritime Community Richard J. Blakemore6. The Small Country as a Maritime Great Power: The Case of Norway Tom Kristiansen and Roald Gjelsten7. Regional Voices: National Causes 1930-1945 Victoria CarolanPart III. Corporate Identities in the Naval and Maritime Sector8. The Other Side of an Amphibian’s Identity: British Marines on Land, 1755-1802 Britt Zerbe9. Untergang and the Corporate Identity of the Imperial German Navy in the World War IMark JonesPart IV. The Sea and the Identity of the Individual Seafarer.10. Defying Conformity: Using Tattoos to Express Individuality in the Victorian Royal Navy Cori Convertito-Farrar11. They Thought they were Normal – and Queens too: Gay Seafarers on British Liners 1950-1985 Jo StanleyPart V. Navies and Imperial Identities.12. From Trafalgar to Santiago: The Spanish Navy and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Spain Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza13. ‘Of the Blood of Sea Peoples’: Navalism and ‘Greater Britain’ 1897-1914 John C. Mitcham14. Identifying ‘Seagoing Races’: Britain’s Colonial Naval Volunteers and the Forging of Identity during World War IIDaniel Spence...
