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

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.

Karen Downing is a researcher and casual lecturer at the Australian National University. Her research interests are in the history of masculinities, emotions, and culture.


Johnathan Thayer is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York. He teaches and conducts research in archival studies, public history, and the intersections of urban and maritime history in U.S. ports.
Joanne Begiato is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. She specialises in the history of masculinities, emotions, material culture, family, and marriage.