Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815–1940

lt;p>Karen Downing is a researcher and casual lecturer in the School of History, Australian National University, and a former assistant editor of History Australia journal and executive committee member of the Australian Historical Association. Her research interests include late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century cultural history in Britain and Australia; gender, especially masculinities; and the history of emotions. She is the author of Restless Men: Masculinity and Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1840 (2014) and articles in Men and Masculinities, Australian Journal of Politics and History, and History Australia, and co-editor (with Marian Sawer and Fiona Jenkins of How Gender can Transform the Social Sciences: Innovation and impact (2020)

Johnathan Thayer is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, The City University of New York, USA, where he teaches graduate courses in archival studies and public history. His research focuses on topics in archival studies pedagogy in addition to research in maritime and coastal history. He is the author of papers and book chapters in library and information studies publications, and book chapters in The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond (2017) and City of Labor, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York (2019). He is currently at work on a monograph focused on the history of citizenship, subversion, and surveillance in U.S. sailortowns.

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Sailor's Progress?.- Chapter 2: Regency Masculinity? Napoleonic War Veterans and ExplainingChange in the History of Masculinities.- Chapter 3: 'He Was Possessed of the Very First Natural Abilities': American Mariners' Construction of Masculinity on the Far Side of the World.- Chapter 4: 'A Splendid Body of Men': Fishermen as Model Males in Late-Nineteenth-Century British Imagery.- Chapter 5: Displaying the Wooden Walls of Old England: The HMS Foudroyant as a Monument to Lost Skills and Manhood, 1892-1897.- Part II Technology and Contestation.- Chapter 6: 'A Real Men's Profession': Finnish Sailors and Masculinities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.- Chapter 7: Row, Row, Row Your Boat: How the Marine Corps Engendered Landing Parties, 1898-1918.- Chapter 8: 'Our Future Lies Upon the Water': Redemptive Manhood and Maritime Labour Reform in the Wilhelmine Era in Germany.- Part III Patriotism, Citizenship, and Respectability.- Chapter 9: 'Sailors' Homes': Sailors' Boarding Houses, Maritime Reform, and Contested Domestic Space in New York's Sailortown.- Chapter 10: Saving H.M.S. Victory: Admiral Nelson, Anti-socialism, and Heroic Masculinity.- Chapter 11: Navalism and Masculinity Before the First World War.- Part IV Nascent and Fragile Masculinities.- Chapter 12: Nelson Was No Milksop: Overcoming Frailty on Film in 1918.- Chapter 13: Epilogue: Manhood Found and Lost at Sea: The Loss of the Eurydice.