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Author Jenks, Timothy.
Title Naval engagements : patriotism, cultural politics, and the Royal Navy, 1793-1815 / Timothy Jenks.
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Author Jenks, Timothy.
Series OUP E-Books.
Subject Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Influence.
Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- 19th century.
Patriotism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Patriotism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Naval operations, British.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Naval operations, British.
Description 1 online resource (viii, 334 pages) : illustrations
polychrome rdacc
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-324) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The Glorious Firsts of June -- Patriotic Instabilities -- Naval Triumph and the Public Sphere -- Contesting Naval Heroism -- Lord Cochrane in Radical Westminster -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Members of Parliament for Westminster, 1790-1818 -- Appendix 2. Published Trafalgar poems.
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Summary Naval Engagements explores the role of the Royal Navy in eighteenth-century political culture. This was the legendary age of sail, in which heroic commanders such as Admiral Nelson won great victories for Britain. Timothy Jenks reveals the ways in which these battles and the heroes who fought them were deployed in British politics. - ;The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in Naval Engagements, looking at the ways in which the navy - a major symbol of national community - was given meaning by a range of social groupings. The study is at once a cultura.
ISBN 9781429459549 (electronic bk.)
1429459549 (electronic bk.)
9780191516412 (electronic bk.)
0191516414 (electronic bk.)
1280845260
9781280845260
9786610845262
6610845263
0199297711 (Cloth)
9780199297719
OCLC # 99996770
Additional Format Print version: Jenks, Timothy. Naval engagements. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2006 0199297711 9780199297719 (DLC) 2006021302 (OCoLC)67869337.
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