Britannias Dragon

Author : J.D. Davies
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494104
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia's Dragon written by J.D. Davies and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present. Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major parts in voyages of exploration, in the navy’s suppression of the slave trade, and in naval warfare from the Viking era to the Spanish Armada, in the American Civil War, both world wars and the Falklands War. Comprehensive, enlightening, and provocative, The Naval History of Wales also explodes many myths about Welsh history, naval historian J.D. Davies arguing that most Welshmen in the sailing navy were volunteers and that, relative to the size of national populations, proportionately more Welsh seamen than English fought at Trafalgar. Written in vivid detail, this volume is one that no maritime or Welsh historian can do without.

Author : J.D. Davies
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494104
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia's Dragon written by J.D. Davies and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present. Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major parts in voyages of exploration, in the navy's suppression of the slave trade, and in naval warfare from the Viking era to the Spanish Armada, in the American Civil War, both world wars and the Falklands War. Comprehensive, enlightening, and provocative, The Naval History of Wales also explodes many myths about Welsh history, naval historian J.D. Davies arguing that most Welshmen in the sailing navy were volunteers and that, relative to the size of national populations, proportionately more Welsh seamen than English fought at Trafalgar. Written in vivid detail, this volume is one that no maritime or Welsh historian can do without.

Author : J D. DAVIES
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781803994857
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naval History of Wales written by J D. DAVIES and published by History Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling and entertaining history of Welsh naval history

Author : Stuart Laycock
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752487655
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia - The Failed State written by Stuart Laycock and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to understand how Roman Britain ends and Anglo-Saxon England begins have been undermined by the division of studies into pre-Roman, Roman and early medieval periods. This groundbreaking new study traces the history of British tribes and British tribal rivalries from the pre-Roman period, through the Roman period and into the post-Roman period. It shows how tribal conflict was central to the arrival of Roman power in Britain and how tribal identities persisted through the Roman period and were a factor in three great convulsions that struck Britain during the Roman centuries. It explores how tribal conflicts may have played a major role in the end of Roman Britain, creating a 'failed state' scenario akin in some ways to those seen recently in Bosnia and Iraq, and brought about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. Finally, it considers how British tribal territories and British tribal conflicts can be understood as the direct predecessors of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Anglo-Saxon conflicts that form the basis of early English History.

Author : Russell Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783162384
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People, Places and Passions written by Russell Davies and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 1870–1948, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created and forged Wales into the mid-twentieth century. This volume considers a range of social changes little considered elsewhere by studies in Welsh history, accounting for the role played by the people of Wales in times of war and the age of the British Empire, and in technological change and innovation, as they travelled the developing capitalist and consumerist world in search of fame and fortune.

Author : William Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock: Britannia's pastorals. Book III. The shepherd's pipe. The Inner Temple masque. Miscellaneous poems. Notes. Index of names written by William Browne and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William BROWNE (of the Inner Temple.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia's Pastorals written by William BROWNE (of the Inner Temple.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book Britannia's Pastorals written by William Browne and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sara Caputo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009199803
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Jack Tars written by Sara Caputo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793–1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars presents the first in-depth study of their employment in the Navy during this crucial period. Based on sources from across Britain, Europe, and the US, and blending quantitative, social, cultural, economic, and legal history, it challenges the very notions of 'Britishness' and 'foreignness'. The need for manpower during wartime meant that naval recruitment regularly bypassed cultural prejudice, and even legal status. Temporarily outstripped by practical considerations, these categories thus revealed their artificiality. The Navy was not simply an employer in the British maritime market, but a nodal point of global mobility. Exposing the inescapable transnational dimensions of a quintessentially national institution, the book highlights the instability of national boundaries, and the compromises and contradictions underlying the power of modern states.

Author : James Davey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300271344
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tempest written by James Davey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reaching its ships. In this insightful history, James Davey tells the story of Britain’s Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s. As resistance and rebellion swept through the fleets, the navy itself became a political battleground. This was a conflict fought for principles as well as power. Sailors organized riots, strikes, petitions, and mutinies to achieve their goals. These shocking events dominated public discussion, prompting cynical—and sometimes brutal—responses from the government. Tempest uncovers the voices of ordinary sailors to shed new light on Britain’s war with France, as the age of revolution played out at every level of society.