Focsle and glory-hole
Title | Focsle and glory-hole PDF eBook |
Author | James Christopher Healey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 1969 |
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Crew Culture
Title | Crew Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Neill Atkinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
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"This book looks at merchant seafarers employed in both the coastal and international trades during the past 100 years. "They had a vibrant sub-culture, with its own language, songs, rituals and myths, which exerted an influence on the development of male identity in this country". This history begins in the early years of commercial shipping from about 1840, when Maori played a prominent part in the coastal trade, and closes after World War II"--Publisher's description.
Andrew Furuseth
Title | Andrew Furuseth PDF eBook |
Author | Hyman Weintraub |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1983 |
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Iron Men, Wooden Women
Title | Iron Men, Wooden Women PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret S. Creighton |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1996-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801851605 |
From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly male-dominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their co-authors explore the relationship of gender and seafaring in the Anglo-American age of sail. Drawing on a wide range of American and British sources—from diaries, logbooks, and account ledgers to songs, poetry, fiction, and a range of public sources—the authors show how popular fascination with seafaring and the sailors' rigorous, male-only life led to models of gender behavior based on "iron men" aboard ship and "stoic women" ashore. Yet Iron Men, Wooden Women also offers new material that defies conventional views. The authors investigate such topics as women in the American whaling industry and the role of the captain's wife aboard ship. They explore the careers of the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, as well as those of other women—"transvestite heroines"—who dressed as men to serve on the crews of sailing ships. And they explore the importance of gender and its connection to race for African American and other seamen in both the American and the British merchant marine. Contributors include both social historians and literary critics: Marcus Rediker, Dianne Dugaw, Ruth Wallis Herndon, Haskell Springer, W. Jeffrey Bolster, Laura Tabili, Lillian Nayder, and Melody Graulich, in addition to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling.
Harvard Guide to American History
Title | Harvard Guide to American History PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Freidel |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674375604 |
Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.
Sailing Into the Abyss
Title | Sailing Into the Abyss PDF eBook |
Author | William Benedetto |
Publisher | Citadel Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2006-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806526461 |
Using eyewitness accounts, official documents, and rarely seen photos, Sailing Into the Abyss takes a fascinating look at the human drama behind the deadliest sea disaster of the Vietnam War. 8-page photo insert.
AB Bookman's Weekly
Title | AB Bookman's Weekly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1576 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Antiquarian booksellers |
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