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Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals

Author : Teresa Michals
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813946743
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals written by Teresa Michals and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy had a peculiar problem: it had too many talented and ambitious officers, all competing for a limited number of command positions. Given this surplus, we might expect that a major physical impairment would automatically disqualify an officer from consideration. To the contrary, after the loss of a limb, at least twenty-six such officers reached the rank of commander or higher through continued service. Losing a limb in battle often became a mark of honor, one that a hero and his friends could use to increase his chances of winning further employment at sea. Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals focuses on the lives and careers of four particularly distinguished officers who returned to sea and continued to fight and win battles after losing an arm or a leg: the famous admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, who fought all of his most historically significant battles after he lost his right arm and the sight in one eye, and his lesser-known fellow amputee admirals, Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Watkin Owen Pell, and Sir James Alexander Gordon. Their stories shed invaluable light on the historical effects of physical impairment and this underexamined aspect of maritime history. Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories

Billy Waters Is Dancing

Author : Mary L Shannon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300267681
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Billy Waters Is Dancing written by Mary L Shannon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his huge celebrity took on a life of its own Every child in Regency London knew Billy Waters, the celebrated "King of the Beggars." Likely born into enslavement in 1770s New York, he became a Royal Navy sailor. After losing his leg in a fall from the rigging, the talented and irrepressible Waters became London's most famous street performer. His extravagantly costumed image blazed across the stage and in print to an unprecedented degree. For all his contemporary renown, Waters died destitute in 1823--but his legend would live on for decades. Mary L. Shannon's biography draws together surviving traces of Waters' life to bring us closer to the historical figure underlying them. Considering Waters' influence on the London stage and his echoing resonances in visual art, and writing by Douglass, Dickens, and Thackeray, Shannon asks us to reconsider Black presences in nineteenth-century popular culture. This is a vital attempt to recover a life from historical obscurity--and a fascinating account of what it meant to find fame in the Regency metropolis.

Melville’s Other Lives

Author : Christopher Sten
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813945453
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Melville’s Other Lives written by Christopher Sten and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melville’s Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza Tales—Herman Melville’s only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetime—and the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melville’s stories. As Christopher Sten shows, all of the stories in The Piazza Tales present encounters between established white male figures: a writer, a lawyer, a ship captain, a homeowner, an architect, a world traveler, and characters who are outsiders, minorities, outcasts, or "others": a seamstress, an office drudge, enslaved Africans, a traveling salesman, island castaways, the poor. In each, Melville concentrates on the trials of the human body, its pain and trauma, its struggles and frustrations. Some tales concern common trials such as illness or invalidism ("The Piazza"), the tedium of office work ("Bartleby"), or the aggravation of door-to-door salesmen ("The Lightning-Rod Man"). Others concern extraordinary trials: the traumatic violence of a rebellion on a slave ship ("Benito Cereno"), the hardships of surviving on a wasteland archipelago ("The Encantadas"), the perils of creating a monstrous "man-machine" ("The Bell-Tower"). In their concern for the cultural meanings of such trials, Melville’s stories look forward to the work of Michel Foucault, Raymond Williams, and other cultural materialists who have shown how cultures define, control, and oppress bodies based on their otherness. As a storyteller, Melville understood how such cultural dynamics operate and seized on our collective obsession with the human body as subject, symbol, and vehicle to dramatize his tales.

Vital Organs

Author : Suzie Edge
Publisher : Wildfire
ISBN 13 : 1035404591
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Vital Organs written by Suzie Edge and published by Wildfire. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led to the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than real flesh and blood. These stories of bodies and its parts remind us that history's most-loved, and most-hated, were real breathing creatures who inhabited organs and limbs just like us - until they're cut off that is. Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge investigates over 40 cases of how we've used, abused, dug up, displayed, experimented on, and worshipped body parts, including why Percy Shelley's heart refused to burn; how Yao Niang's toes started a 1000 year long ritual; why a giant's bones are making us rethink medical ethics; and the strange case of Hitler's right testicle.

Memoirs of Admiral the Right Hon[orabl]e the Earl of St. Vincent ...

Author : Jedediah Stephens Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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The Left-handed Monkey Wrench

Author : Richard McKenna
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Left-handed Monkey Wrench written by Richard McKenna and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from the author's uncompleted second novel and stories about a lonely warrant officer, a crafty sailor, and a proud engineer are accompanied by essays about historical research and naval life and reform.

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Total Pages : 1020 pages
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Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: 1688-1702

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: 1688-1702 written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Parliamentary Debates

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803

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Total Pages : 844 pages
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Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England

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Total Pages : 850 pages
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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803

Author : William Cobbett
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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803

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Total Pages : 836 pages
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They Run with Surprising Swiftness

Author : Peter Radford
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813947944
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book They Run with Surprising Swiftness written by Peter Radford and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have battled for a place in the male-dominated world of sports throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, overturning obstacles and highlighting the changing position of women in societies around the world. This has become one of the defining stories of our age and the central story of women’s sports. They Run with Surprising Swiftness tells a different and much older, forgotten story with many of the same themes. Sports have never been the sole preserve of men; women athletes have always been there. As this book shows, throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain, women of all ages ran, fought, rode, played football, cricket, tennis, and other sports. They competed in tough, head-to-head events that required extraordinary endurance and skill. Though not labeled "athletic" at the time, these women performed feats that in our age would certainly earn that descriptor. They Run with Surprising Swiftness recognizes these remarkable athletes and their achievements and aims to restore them to their rightful place in the long history of women in sport.

Nelson's Trafalgar

Author : Roy Adkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440627290
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Nelson's Trafalgar written by Roy Adkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle, from the co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive work that re-creates those five momentous, earsplitting hours with unrivaled detail and intensity.