Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
19.02.2007
Verlag
University College of DublinSeitenzahl
184
Maße (L/B/H)
21.8/16.2/2.2 cm
Gewicht
397 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-904558-80-4
The emergence of the professional naval officer was related both to the necessities of naval warfare and to the structure of society on land. Elias traces the onboard conflicts between gentleman soldiers skilled in fighting, and 'tarpaulins'--lower classes skilled in navigation and the manual skills of sailing. The innovation of the midshipman--boys of gentle birth who both learned the manual skills of the sailor and received the education of a gentleman--gave crucial advantage to the British Royal Navy over the French and Spanish, in which the greater rigidity of social barriers ashore prevented a similar solution afloat. This book has been reconstructed from his mainly unpublished typescripts.
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