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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Seamen"”.
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Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815
This thesis focuses on the foreign seamen who served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815). It is a transnational social history of eighteenth-century state power, warfare, and migration, examining the legal terms of ‘foreigners’’ naval employment, the …
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Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945
<p>This dissertation argues that merchant seamen, because of their inherent transience, diversity, and the unique nature of their work, occupied a marginal position in U.S. society, and that that marginalization produced a series of confrontations with shoreside people, communities, institutions, …
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Maritime law registries in South Africa and Greece : transactions to be registered, legal effects of registration
… since early times. The fact that ships and seamen, wherever they come from, or to whichever nation they belong, are exposed to the same dangers and are dealing with the same problems, has made maritime law uniform. This system of law has been one of the few, if not the only one that has been …
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Maritime legal labour: empowering workers at sea
… and labour law, those who work on the seas as seamen belong to such groups.
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Saisie conservatoire and the Admiralty action in rem: estranged cousins: a comparative analysis between South African and French Admiralty law
… attitude towards vessels in maritime law forces seamen to be very protective towards their property: they give them affectionate names, personalities (in English grammar, 'ship' is the only word having a gender), a statute, an object needing protection: She becomes the apple of their eye. Even if …
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The payment and insurance of ransom: an analysis of legality, morality and possible solutions in the case of ship hijackings by pirates
… in the Indian Ocean and threatens life of seamen. The purpose of Somali pirates is to obtain high ransom sums. Their demands are frequently met by intimidated shipowners who then turn to their insurers for cover. This practise has led to enormous profits for both the insurers as well as the …
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The Fight for Equality: African American Seabees During World War II
… changing its policies on the treatment of black seamen. Through the examination of materials including newspaper articles, military documents, cruise logs, letters, speeches from President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy Knox, dissertations, and books about the Navy’s integration policies and …
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The Enslaved people of Simons Town 1743-1843
… that the arrival of many working class British seamen into Simon's Town impacted on both male and female slaves in Simon's Town in ways that would see them re-evaluate and reject the institution of slavery. Pertinent findings are suggestions of ethnic awareness and ethnic spatial separation that …
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British personnel in the Dutch navy, 1642-1697
… of the crews of particular officers and ships. Seamen were an occupation that made them a very little known group: the thesis examines the different career types of British personnel of many different ranks, shedding light on their everyday lives. The thesis shows that British personnel were an …
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'Not in Glorious Battle Slain’: Disease and Death in the Royal Navy’s Western Squadron during the Seven Years’ War
… would drastically reduce the numbers of able seamen. This was compounded by demobilization that followed the War of the Austrian Succession, forcing the British forces to rely on impressment to augment their troop numbers. Though there was a concerted effort to take healthy men with seafaring …
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Greenwich parish church, memorialisation and community c. 1700 to the present day
… of a royal palace and the Royal Hospital for Seamen in Greenwich made the interaction of local and national authorities during these church building projects atypical for a parish church. The extent to which the local parish communities participated in the transformation of their parish …
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Forgotten heroes: design and production of a public engagement and display strategy for a historic skeletal collection.
… of individuals who were likely all Naval seamen excavated from the cemetery of the former Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth (1762-1995). The burials were discovered due to redevelopment works and were excavated in 2007 by Exeter Archaeology. At the time, approximately 160 articulated and …
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His Majesty's Ship Saphire and the Royal Navy in 17th-Century Newfoundland
… the habitus of the daily lives of 17th-century seamen.
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Wonders in the Deep: Faith and Religious Practice in the Shipboard Writings of American Sailors, 1810-1859
… beliefs through their own words. While American seamen certainly drank, swore, and caroused, sailors also frequently captured in their writing a much more religious nature than the mainland expected of them. Sailors’ position as highly mobile laborers on the ultimate borderlands—the sea …
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The Rincon Astrolabe Shipwreck
… field of astronomy were adapted to be used by seamen. Among them was the astrolabe, which became the most popular by the turn of the sixteenth century. After discussing the instrument's origin and development, the author analyzes how a renewed interest on the nautical astrolabe, which emerged …