Maritime History and Identity

Duncan Redford is Senior Research Fellow in Modern Naval History at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN). He previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowships at the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter and is the author of The Submarine: A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat (I.B.Tauris). He is the General Editor of the History of the Royal Navy series, published by I.B.Tauris in association with the National Museum of the Royal Navy.

Introduction
Duncan Redford

Part I. Navies and National Identity:
The Naval Hero and British National Identity 1707-1750
James Davey
2.It? Masanori, the Imperial Navy and Japan’s Post-war National Identity
Alessio Patalano
3.The Royal Navy, Sea Blindness and British National Identity
Duncan Redford

Part II. The Sea and Regional Identities.
4.Like the Crew of a Ship: The Sea and Identity in Modern Messina
Guiseppe Restifo
5.The Bridge, the River and the Ocean Sea: Concepts of Space in the Seventeenth-Century London Maritime Community
Richard J. Blakemore
6.The Small Country as a Maritime Great Power: The Case of Norway
Tom Kristiansen and Roald Gjelsten
7.Regional Voices: National Causes 1930-1945
Victoria Carolan

Part III. Corporate Identities in the Naval and Maritime Sector
8.The Other Side of an Amphibian’s Identity: British Marines on Land, 1755-1802
Britt Zerbe
9.Untergang and the Corporate Identity of the Imperial German Navy in the World War I
Mark Jones

Part IV. The Sea and the Identity of the Individual Seafarer.
10.Defying Conformity: Using Tattoos to Express Individuality in the Victorian Royal Navy
Cori Convertito-Farrar
11.They Thought they were Normal – and Queens too: Gay Seafarers on British Liners 1950-1985
Jo Stanley

Part V. Navies and Imperial Identities.
12.From Trafalgar to Santiago: The Spanish Navy and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza
13.‘Of the Blood of Sea Peoples’: Navalism and ‘Greater Britain’ 1897-1914
John C. Mitcham
14.Identifying ‘Seagoing Races’: Britain’s Colonial Naval Volunteers and the Forging of Identity during World War II
Daniel Spence