The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 67492779
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-50765-5
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137507648
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited collection of 223pp (9 chapters and 84,000 words) is the outcome of joint work by Dr John McAleer and Professor Christer Petley, each of whom took an equal share of editorial responsibility. The concept for the volume was jointly developed by Petley and McAleer in 2014, and several chapters from the book were first presented at a conference organised by the two editors at the National Museum of the Royal Navy.
The collection includes chapters from eight authors, based in the UK and in the US. Chapters focus on the Navy and the Caribbean and Ireland, the American Revolution, the abolition of the slave trade, and the Navy’s operations and presence in the South Atlantic. Professor Kathleen Wilson’s epilogue notes how the work in the collection demonstrates that research on the Navy can fruitfully be integrated into new varieties of imperial and Atlantic history. Overall, the volume represents a new contribution to naval and Atlantic historiographies by bringing the two fields together in dialogue, facilitated by the co-editors’ respective expertise (McAleer’s in naval/maritime history and Petley’s in Caribbean/Atlantic).
The co-editors co-authored the introductory chapter (10,284 words), making equal contributions. That chapter sets out the book’s scholarly objectives, positioning the project within the wider literature, and includes evidence from contemporary documents, drawn both from Petley’s and from McAleer’s research. Petley is the sole author of Chapter 5 (10,275 words), on the Royal Navy and the abolition of the slave trade, which is based on his original research, including his work on manuscript materials from British and Jamaican archives. Petley also made a heavy contribution to the writing and editing of Chapter 2 (8794 words) on the Royal Navy and Caribbean Society, authored by one of his former PhD students.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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