By Spence Daniel Owen
ISBN-10: 0719091772
ISBN-13: 9780719091773
Through a transnational and comparative research of 'official' and 'subaltern' resources within the uk, the Caribbean, East Africa, East and Southeast Asia, this e-book examines for the 1st time the political, social and cultural influence of colonial naval forces. It explores their emergence in a weather of 'imperial overstretch' and geopolitical tensions, as bulwarks for maintaining British 'prestige' opposed to rival imperialisms and colonial nationalisms; the significance of 'men at the spot', 'collaboration', 'naval theatre', 'invented traditions', and propaganda in mobilising colonial 'navalism'; the function of naval 'paternalism' and coaching in the 'civilising mission', and its social and fiscal 'development' of colonial 'character'; and the way racial ideology and discourses of strength fostered a 'seafaring race' concept, influencing naval recruitment, technique and administration, and affecting imperial sentiment, ethnic family members, colonial identities, customs and order.
This booklet hence appeals to imperial, maritime and neighborhood historians, and advances the cultural flip in these disciplines by means of broadening our knowing of navies as social and cultural associations, the place strength used to be expressed as a lot within the principles and kin they cultivated, as in the course of the barrels in their guns.
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Colonial Naval Culture and British Imperialism, 1922-67 (Studies in Imperialism MUP) by Spence Daniel Owen
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