Description: Further DetailsTitle: Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815Condition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: Control, Resistance, Flogging and HangingISBN-10: 1783271191EAN: 9781783271191ISBN: 9781783271191Publisher: The Boydell PressRelease Date: 07/21/2016Description: How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish?Churchill once famously remarked that he would not join the navy because it was "all rum, sodomy and the lash". How far this was true of the navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars is the subject of this important new book. Summary punishments, courts martial, flogging and hanging were regularly made use of in this period to establish order in the navy. Based on extensive original research, including a detailed study of ships' captain's logs and muster tables, this book explores the concepts of order and disorder aboard ships and examines how order was preserved. It discusses the different sorts of disorder and why they occurred; argues that officers toosometimes pushed against the official order; and demonstrates that order was much more than the simple enforcement of the Articles of War. The book argues that the behaviours that were punished, how and to what degree reveal what the navy saw as most resistive or dangerous to its authority and the order it wanted established. In addition, it considers the role of patronage in shaping order, outlining how this was affected by Admiralty moves to centralise appointments, and shows that acts of disorder were plentiful, and increasing, in this period, and that the imbalance in court martial outcomes for sailors, marines and warrant officers, in comparison to commissioned officers, points to a flawed system of justice. Overall, the book provides an extremely nuanced picture of order and how it was preserved. Thomas Malcomson is a Professor in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at George Brown College, Toronto, Ontario. He completed his doctorate in history at York University, Toronto.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Thomas MalcomsonGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: HistoryItem Weight: 1gType: EuropeRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815
Title: Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815
Subtitle: Control, Resistance, Flogging and Hanging
ISBN-10: 1783271191
EAN: 9781783271191
ISBN: 9781783271191
Release Date: 07/21/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 316 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815 : Control, Resistance, Flogging and Hanging
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Military / Naval, Military / General, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 19.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Thomas Malcomson
Subject Area: History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
