Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions
Autor James Daveyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 iun 2023
The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reaching its ships.
In this insightful history, James Davey tells the story of Britain’s Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s. As resistance and rebellion swept through the fleets, the navy itself became a political battleground. This was a conflict fought for principles as well as power. Sailors organized riots, strikes, petitions, and mutinies to achieve their goals. These shocking events dominated public discussion, prompting cynical—and sometimes brutal—responses from the government.
Tempest uncovers the voices of ordinary sailors to shed new light on Britain’s war with France, as the age of revolution played out at every level of society.
Preț: 196.20 lei
Nou
37.55€ • 39.06$ • 30.100£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 24 martie-07 aprilie
Livrare express 08-14 martie pentru 38.41 lei
Specificații
ISBN-10: 0300238274
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 36 colour illus.+10 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Recenzii
“A rich and comprehensive portrayal of a navy in crisis during the eighteenth century’s most turbulent decade. Davey is particularly astute when tracking the links between political movements on land and sea.”—Nicholas Rogers, author of Murder on the Middle Passage
“This book breaks new ground. Well researched and readable, it firmly links the naval mutinies of the revolutionary 1790s to shore-based insurgency, while its international reach also allows it to take in the revolts of enslaved Africans in the West Indies.”—Margarette Lincoln, author of London and the Seventeenth Century
“Erudite, balanced, innovative, and based on deep engagement with the sources, Tempest recovers sailors' voices and listens to them carefully. In the process, it offers an impressively lucid case for the relevance of the late eighteenth-century Navy to British history – and to the present.”—Sara Caputo, author of Foreign Jack Tars
Notă biografică
James Davey teaches at the University of Exeter. He was formerly curator of naval history at the National Maritime Museum and is the author of In Nelson’s Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars.
Descriere
A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution
The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reaching its ships.
In this insightful history, James Davey tells the story of Britain’s Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s. As resistance and rebellion swept through the fleets, the navy itself became a political battleground. This was a conflict fought for principles as well as power. Sailors organized riots, strikes, petitions, and mutinies to achieve their goals. These shocking events dominated public discussion, prompting cynical—and sometimes brutal—responses from the government.
Tempest uncovers the voices of ordinary sailors to shed new light on Britain’s war with France, as the age of revolution played out at every level of society.