Arthur J. Marder
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201502
- eISBN:
- 9780191674907
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201502.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Military History
The first section of this chapter describes the formation of the ‘Trident’ Conference and the ‘Quadrant’ Conference. It discusses the British alternatives to ‘Anakim’, the famine in Bengal, the ...
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The first section of this chapter describes the formation of the ‘Trident’ Conference and the ‘Quadrant’ Conference. It discusses the British alternatives to ‘Anakim’, the famine in Bengal, the surrender of the Italian fleet, the proposals to use Italian battleships in the Pacific–American opposition, and the succession of Admiral Andrew Cunningham after the death of Admiral Pound. The second section describes the Japanese fears of British attack, the defenceless IJA against British combined operations, and the ‘Absolute National Defence Sphere’. The last section discusses the war against trade. It describes the limited use of convoys in the Indian Ocean, U-boat successes, the vulnerability of unescorted ships, and Japanese submarine atrocities.Less
The first section of this chapter describes the formation of the ‘Trident’ Conference and the ‘Quadrant’ Conference. It discusses the British alternatives to ‘Anakim’, the famine in Bengal, the surrender of the Italian fleet, the proposals to use Italian battleships in the Pacific–American opposition, and the succession of Admiral Andrew Cunningham after the death of Admiral Pound. The second section describes the Japanese fears of British attack, the defenceless IJA against British combined operations, and the ‘Absolute National Defence Sphere’. The last section discusses the war against trade. It describes the limited use of convoys in the Indian Ocean, U-boat successes, the vulnerability of unescorted ships, and Japanese submarine atrocities.
Richard Barrios
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195377347
- eISBN:
- 9780199864577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377347.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
The earliest rivals of The Broadway Melody were compelled to grapple with a distinctive group of artistic and technical challenges. Warners' The Desert Song, the screen's first operetta, and Fox's ...
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The earliest rivals of The Broadway Melody were compelled to grapple with a distinctive group of artistic and technical challenges. Warners' The Desert Song, the screen's first operetta, and Fox's Movietone Follies of 1929 were both hampered by various delays. Universal's Show Boat suffered from its juxtaposition to the triumphant stage musical. Syncopation, from the new company RKO, was filmed so quickly and cheaply that it beat most of its rivals to the screen. Broadway was an uneasy hybrid of stage melodrama and screen musical. Warner's On With the Show!, the first sound film shot entirely in Technicolor, was the definitive backstage film and a huge success, most notably with Ethel Waters singing “Am I Blue?”Less
The earliest rivals of The Broadway Melody were compelled to grapple with a distinctive group of artistic and technical challenges. Warners' The Desert Song, the screen's first operetta, and Fox's Movietone Follies of 1929 were both hampered by various delays. Universal's Show Boat suffered from its juxtaposition to the triumphant stage musical. Syncopation, from the new company RKO, was filmed so quickly and cheaply that it beat most of its rivals to the screen. Broadway was an uneasy hybrid of stage melodrama and screen musical. Warner's On With the Show!, the first sound film shot entirely in Technicolor, was the definitive backstage film and a huge success, most notably with Ethel Waters singing “Am I Blue?”
Matthew S. Seligmann
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261505
- eISBN:
- 9780191718618
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261505.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter examines the intelligence information supplied by the service attachés on technical military and naval matters. It demonstrates that a great deal of useful and accurate information was ...
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This chapter examines the intelligence information supplied by the service attachés on technical military and naval matters. It demonstrates that a great deal of useful and accurate information was supplied on topics as diverse as motor vehicles, aircraft, airships, submarines and destroyers. In the process, the authorities in London were alerted to the excellent work on aviation being carried out in Germany by both Count Zeppelin and Anton Fokker; they were also informed about the early attempts to mechanize aspects of the German army's supply chain; and they were given advanced warning about the threat posed by German submarines (U-boats) to naval surface vessels. In addition, the attachés sent back numerous reports about the excellence of German military and naval personnel and about the qualities of the officers and commanders.Less
This chapter examines the intelligence information supplied by the service attachés on technical military and naval matters. It demonstrates that a great deal of useful and accurate information was supplied on topics as diverse as motor vehicles, aircraft, airships, submarines and destroyers. In the process, the authorities in London were alerted to the excellent work on aviation being carried out in Germany by both Count Zeppelin and Anton Fokker; they were also informed about the early attempts to mechanize aspects of the German army's supply chain; and they were given advanced warning about the threat posed by German submarines (U-boats) to naval surface vessels. In addition, the attachés sent back numerous reports about the excellence of German military and naval personnel and about the qualities of the officers and commanders.
Robb Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781786941756
- eISBN:
- 9781789623222
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941756.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focused on capital ships, Jutland and perhaps U-boats. Very little has been ...
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Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focused on capital ships, Jutland and perhaps U-boats. Very little has been published about the crucial role played by fishermen, fishing vessels and coastal communities all round the British Isles. Yet fishermen and armed fishing craft were continually on the maritime front line throughout the conflict; they formed the backbone of the Auxiliary Patrol and were in constant action against U-boats or engaged on unrelenting minesweeping duties. Approximately 3000 fishing vessels were requisitioned and armed by the Admiralty and more than 39,000 fishermen joined the Trawler Section of the Royal Naval Reserve. The class and cultural gap between working fishermen and many RN officers was enormous. This book examines the multifaceted role that fishermen and the fish trade played throughout the conflict. It examines the reasons why, in an age of dreadnoughts and other high-tech military equipment, so many fishermen and fishing vessels were called upon to play such a crucial role in the littoral war against mines and U-boats, not only around the British Isles but also off the coasts of various other theatres of war. The book analyses the nature of the fishing industry's war-time involvement and also the contribution that non-belligerent fishing vessels continued to play in maintaining the beleaguered nation's food supplies.Less
Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focused on capital ships, Jutland and perhaps U-boats. Very little has been published about the crucial role played by fishermen, fishing vessels and coastal communities all round the British Isles. Yet fishermen and armed fishing craft were continually on the maritime front line throughout the conflict; they formed the backbone of the Auxiliary Patrol and were in constant action against U-boats or engaged on unrelenting minesweeping duties. Approximately 3000 fishing vessels were requisitioned and armed by the Admiralty and more than 39,000 fishermen joined the Trawler Section of the Royal Naval Reserve. The class and cultural gap between working fishermen and many RN officers was enormous. This book examines the multifaceted role that fishermen and the fish trade played throughout the conflict. It examines the reasons why, in an age of dreadnoughts and other high-tech military equipment, so many fishermen and fishing vessels were called upon to play such a crucial role in the littoral war against mines and U-boats, not only around the British Isles but also off the coasts of various other theatres of war. The book analyses the nature of the fishing industry's war-time involvement and also the contribution that non-belligerent fishing vessels continued to play in maintaining the beleaguered nation's food supplies.
John Baxter
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813126012
- eISBN:
- 9780813135601
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813126012.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Von Sternberg looked for other work in New York but had little success. He received credit as assistant to Wallace Worsely on the The Highest Bidder, released in 1921. He felt a greater affinity with ...
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Von Sternberg looked for other work in New York but had little success. He received credit as assistant to Wallace Worsely on the The Highest Bidder, released in 1921. He felt a greater affinity with European methods than American ones, and he crossed the Atlantic on a cattle boat in 1921. He went straight to Vienna, visiting the city six times that year. On each occasion he lived at Gartnerstrasse, listing his profession as “film director.” Bon Sternberg called on Arthur Schnitzler on May 24, but was overcome with nerves and could not stop talking. Schnitzler had to remind his visitor that he had come to hear the thoughts of the author of Reigen and Traumnovelle, not vice versa.Less
Von Sternberg looked for other work in New York but had little success. He received credit as assistant to Wallace Worsely on the The Highest Bidder, released in 1921. He felt a greater affinity with European methods than American ones, and he crossed the Atlantic on a cattle boat in 1921. He went straight to Vienna, visiting the city six times that year. On each occasion he lived at Gartnerstrasse, listing his profession as “film director.” Bon Sternberg called on Arthur Schnitzler on May 24, but was overcome with nerves and could not stop talking. Schnitzler had to remind his visitor that he had come to hear the thoughts of the author of Reigen and Traumnovelle, not vice versa.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035406
- eISBN:
- 9780813038377
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035406.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
Other ships of the fleet returned to Spain, among them one whose master was Pedro Fernández Exuero, a native of Palos, Spain, and whose pilot was a certain Antón Calvo, a good man and expert ...
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Other ships of the fleet returned to Spain, among them one whose master was Pedro Fernández Exuero, a native of Palos, Spain, and whose pilot was a certain Antón Calvo, a good man and expert navigator. The ship left the port of Darién and came to Hispaniola along the northern route. After taking aboard the necessary fresh supplies, it sailed in very fair weather. Three hundred or more leagues out to sea from Hispaniola the ship began taking on so much water that even two pumps could not save it and finally it sank in the ocean. When the twenty-five people on board saw that there was no way to staunch the flow of water they hurried to break out the ship's boat. However, with God's help, the boat was freed from the ship at the moment when the ship was almost submerged.Less
Other ships of the fleet returned to Spain, among them one whose master was Pedro Fernández Exuero, a native of Palos, Spain, and whose pilot was a certain Antón Calvo, a good man and expert navigator. The ship left the port of Darién and came to Hispaniola along the northern route. After taking aboard the necessary fresh supplies, it sailed in very fair weather. Three hundred or more leagues out to sea from Hispaniola the ship began taking on so much water that even two pumps could not save it and finally it sank in the ocean. When the twenty-five people on board saw that there was no way to staunch the flow of water they hurried to break out the ship's boat. However, with God's help, the boat was freed from the ship at the moment when the ship was almost submerged.
Matthew S. Seligmann
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199574032
- eISBN:
- 9780191741432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574032.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Military History
This chapter considers the successes and failures of these policies when the test of war came in 1914. Many pre-war assumptions quickly proved unfounded. The Germans did not deploy as many auxiliary ...
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This chapter considers the successes and failures of these policies when the test of war came in 1914. Many pre-war assumptions quickly proved unfounded. The Germans did not deploy as many auxiliary cruisers as the Admiralty feared. Nevertheless, many of the measures taken to forestall this proved useful in other ways. Mauretania proved a capable hospital ship and then troop transport; battle cruisers proved their value at the battle of Dogger Bank; the global intelligence network proved invaluable as a source of information for merchantmen; and mounting defensive armament on cargo vessels turned out to offer some protection against U-boats. Thus, if the threat was not as great as feared, the countermeasures that had been put in place proved their utility in other ways.Less
This chapter considers the successes and failures of these policies when the test of war came in 1914. Many pre-war assumptions quickly proved unfounded. The Germans did not deploy as many auxiliary cruisers as the Admiralty feared. Nevertheless, many of the measures taken to forestall this proved useful in other ways. Mauretania proved a capable hospital ship and then troop transport; battle cruisers proved their value at the battle of Dogger Bank; the global intelligence network proved invaluable as a source of information for merchantmen; and mounting defensive armament on cargo vessels turned out to offer some protection against U-boats. Thus, if the threat was not as great as feared, the countermeasures that had been put in place proved their utility in other ways.
John Jenkin
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199235209
- eISBN:
- 9780191715631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235209.003.00017
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
The study of crystals and Bob's Cambridge studies were interrupted by war. William hurried home from America and moved to University College London. Bob enlisted, was sent to Gallipoli, and died of ...
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The study of crystals and Bob's Cambridge studies were interrupted by war. William hurried home from America and moved to University College London. Bob enlisted, was sent to Gallipoli, and died of wounds inflicted by an errant enemy shell. His mother was distraught, William quietly enraged. Lawrence went to Flanders to develop a French scheme for locating enemy guns by detecting their sound. After months of work at the front line — where he was notified of the joint award, with his father, of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics — Lawrence succeeded. ‘Sound-ranging’ played a major part in the final Allied thrust against Germany; Lawrence became Major Bragg, OBE, MC. William investigated the location of German U-boats by the sound of their engines, but without much success, and antagonism between civilian scientists and Navy personnel frustrated him. He was knighted for his war service.Less
The study of crystals and Bob's Cambridge studies were interrupted by war. William hurried home from America and moved to University College London. Bob enlisted, was sent to Gallipoli, and died of wounds inflicted by an errant enemy shell. His mother was distraught, William quietly enraged. Lawrence went to Flanders to develop a French scheme for locating enemy guns by detecting their sound. After months of work at the front line — where he was notified of the joint award, with his father, of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics — Lawrence succeeded. ‘Sound-ranging’ played a major part in the final Allied thrust against Germany; Lawrence became Major Bragg, OBE, MC. William investigated the location of German U-boats by the sound of their engines, but without much success, and antagonism between civilian scientists and Navy personnel frustrated him. He was knighted for his war service.
Andrew Lipman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300207668
- eISBN:
- 9780300216691
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300207668.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter takes a general look at the material world of the coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod. An exploration of saltwater engagements of Europeans and Native mariners, both in early ...
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This chapter takes a general look at the material world of the coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod. An exploration of saltwater engagements of Europeans and Native mariners, both in early contact and in the decades after, uncovers a surprising story about the overlap of maritime traditions. There were two groups of watermen in this corner of the ocean. Newcomers were more hirsute than locals and clad in linen and wool; locals fashioned their hair into elaborate scalplocks and wore tanned leather. Soon both types of men would become similarly skilled at trimming canvas sails and balancing canoes. Noting the asymmetries between ships and canoes leads to the most compelling fact about nautical encounters in this region. Even on the water, the realm where one might reasonably assume that the disparity between tools was the greatest, it would be a long time before colonizers had a clear advantage over the people they hoped to colonize.Less
This chapter takes a general look at the material world of the coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod. An exploration of saltwater engagements of Europeans and Native mariners, both in early contact and in the decades after, uncovers a surprising story about the overlap of maritime traditions. There were two groups of watermen in this corner of the ocean. Newcomers were more hirsute than locals and clad in linen and wool; locals fashioned their hair into elaborate scalplocks and wore tanned leather. Soon both types of men would become similarly skilled at trimming canvas sails and balancing canoes. Noting the asymmetries between ships and canoes leads to the most compelling fact about nautical encounters in this region. Even on the water, the realm where one might reasonably assume that the disparity between tools was the greatest, it would be a long time before colonizers had a clear advantage over the people they hoped to colonize.
Helen Cooper
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199248865
- eISBN:
- 9780191719394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248865.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
The rudderless boat, in which the polluted (such as the offspring of incest or accused women), the politically dangerous (enemies or infant heirs), or potential saints are cast out to sea, is a motif ...
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The rudderless boat, in which the polluted (such as the offspring of incest or accused women), the politically dangerous (enemies or infant heirs), or potential saints are cast out to sea, is a motif that extends from early saints’ legends through Tasso, Don Quixote and The Tempest: it provides an involuntary equivalent of the quest or pilgrimage. Sixteenth-century usages of the motif typically insist on Providence as a means of salvation, but they put more consistent emphasis on the providentially-guided transfer of power rather than on sanctity. The related motif of the magic ship constructed by a woman is also reformulated in the Renaissance to mythologize colonial expansion.Less
The rudderless boat, in which the polluted (such as the offspring of incest or accused women), the politically dangerous (enemies or infant heirs), or potential saints are cast out to sea, is a motif that extends from early saints’ legends through Tasso, Don Quixote and The Tempest: it provides an involuntary equivalent of the quest or pilgrimage. Sixteenth-century usages of the motif typically insist on Providence as a means of salvation, but they put more consistent emphasis on the providentially-guided transfer of power rather than on sanctity. The related motif of the magic ship constructed by a woman is also reformulated in the Renaissance to mythologize colonial expansion.
Philip Gerard
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469602073
- eISBN:
- 9781469608136
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9781469608129_Gerard
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
This book invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers at Mermaid Point all the way to the Cape ...
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This book invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers at Mermaid Point all the way to the Cape of Fear on Bald Head Island. Accompanying the author by canoe and powerboat are a cadre of people passionate about the river, among them a river guide, a photographer, a biologist, a river keeper, and a boat captain. Historical voices also lend their wisdom to our understanding of this river, which has been a main artery of commerce, culture, settlement, and war for the entire region since it was first discovered by Verrazzano in 1524. The author explores the myriad environmental and political issues being played out along the waters of the Cape Fear. These include commerce and environmental stewardship, wilderness and development, suburban sprawl and the decline and renaissance of inner cities, and private rights versus the public good.Less
This book invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers at Mermaid Point all the way to the Cape of Fear on Bald Head Island. Accompanying the author by canoe and powerboat are a cadre of people passionate about the river, among them a river guide, a photographer, a biologist, a river keeper, and a boat captain. Historical voices also lend their wisdom to our understanding of this river, which has been a main artery of commerce, culture, settlement, and war for the entire region since it was first discovered by Verrazzano in 1524. The author explores the myriad environmental and political issues being played out along the waters of the Cape Fear. These include commerce and environmental stewardship, wilderness and development, suburban sprawl and the decline and renaissance of inner cities, and private rights versus the public good.
BONNIE S. McDOUGALL
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199256792
- eISBN:
- 9780191698378
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256792.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
Xu Guangping addressed her letter to Lu Xun the writer, rather than to Mr Zhou, her teacher. It is unlikely that one of her motives in writing was the pursuit of a romantic relationship. In her ...
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Xu Guangping addressed her letter to Lu Xun the writer, rather than to Mr Zhou, her teacher. It is unlikely that one of her motives in writing was the pursuit of a romantic relationship. In her letter of 20 March she referred to herself as xiao gui (young devil). Lu Xun took up the epithet in his letter of 8 April, and she used it as part of her signature in her reply. From that point on, their correspondence took on a teasing note. Xu Guangping's first visit to Lu Xun's home was with Lin Zhuofeng on 12 April. He also comments on how protective he feels about his students, in what seems to be a disguised reference to her in particular. The Dragon Boat Day incident was another turning point in their relationship. On 2 July, Xu Guangping made her first visit alone to Lu Xun's home.Less
Xu Guangping addressed her letter to Lu Xun the writer, rather than to Mr Zhou, her teacher. It is unlikely that one of her motives in writing was the pursuit of a romantic relationship. In her letter of 20 March she referred to herself as xiao gui (young devil). Lu Xun took up the epithet in his letter of 8 April, and she used it as part of her signature in her reply. From that point on, their correspondence took on a teasing note. Xu Guangping's first visit to Lu Xun's home was with Lin Zhuofeng on 12 April. He also comments on how protective he feels about his students, in what seems to be a disguised reference to her in particular. The Dragon Boat Day incident was another turning point in their relationship. On 2 July, Xu Guangping made her first visit alone to Lu Xun's home.
Marcus Faulkner and Christopher M. Bell (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781949668001
- eISBN:
- 9781949668018
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9781949668001.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than ...
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than just attacks by German U-boats on Allied shipping. The team of leading scholars assembled here situate the German assault on seaborne trade within the wider Allied war effort and provide a new understanding of its place within the Second World War. Individual chapters offer original perspectives on a range of neglected or previously-overlooked subjects: how Allied grand strategy shaped the war at sea; the choices and tensions facing Churchill and other Allied leaders over the allocation of scarce resources between theaters; how the battle spread beyond the Atlantic Ocean in both military and economic terms; the management of Britain's merchant shipping repair yards; the defense of British coastal waters against German surface raiders; the contribution of air power to trade defense; anti-submarine escort training; the role of special intelligence; and the war against the U-boats in the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.Less
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than just attacks by German U-boats on Allied shipping. The team of leading scholars assembled here situate the German assault on seaborne trade within the wider Allied war effort and provide a new understanding of its place within the Second World War. Individual chapters offer original perspectives on a range of neglected or previously-overlooked subjects: how Allied grand strategy shaped the war at sea; the choices and tensions facing Churchill and other Allied leaders over the allocation of scarce resources between theaters; how the battle spread beyond the Atlantic Ocean in both military and economic terms; the management of Britain's merchant shipping repair yards; the defense of British coastal waters against German surface raiders; the contribution of air power to trade defense; anti-submarine escort training; the role of special intelligence; and the war against the U-boats in the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.
H. S. Jones
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199510177
- eISBN:
- 9780191700972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199510177.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
By 1850, the Boat Race, though not yet known by that lapidary title, had an established place in the sporting calendar of Oxford University. It was almost (though not quite) an annual fixture, and ...
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By 1850, the Boat Race, though not yet known by that lapidary title, had an established place in the sporting calendar of Oxford University. It was almost (though not quite) an annual fixture, and was regarded as ‘the great event of the aquatic year’ and ‘the greatest of all aquatic reunions’. The Oxford–Cambridge cricket match, a still more venerable fixture, had established itself as an annual contest, but excited less public interest than its counterpart on the river. These were, however, the only two inter-university contests yet established; the concept of the ‘blue’ had not yet emerged; and Lord's was not yet established as the permanent venue for the cricket match. Sport in Oxford had not taken on a recognizably modern form; netther had the word ‘sport’ assumed its modern meaning, for to the Oxford undergraduate of the 1850s it still meant hunting, whereas rowing, cricket, and boxing were ‘athletic pursuits’. The half-century that followed saw the establishment of the distinctive patterns of modern Oxford sport and, indeed, of undergraduate leisure.Less
By 1850, the Boat Race, though not yet known by that lapidary title, had an established place in the sporting calendar of Oxford University. It was almost (though not quite) an annual fixture, and was regarded as ‘the great event of the aquatic year’ and ‘the greatest of all aquatic reunions’. The Oxford–Cambridge cricket match, a still more venerable fixture, had established itself as an annual contest, but excited less public interest than its counterpart on the river. These were, however, the only two inter-university contests yet established; the concept of the ‘blue’ had not yet emerged; and Lord's was not yet established as the permanent venue for the cricket match. Sport in Oxford had not taken on a recognizably modern form; netther had the word ‘sport’ assumed its modern meaning, for to the Oxford undergraduate of the 1850s it still meant hunting, whereas rowing, cricket, and boxing were ‘athletic pursuits’. The half-century that followed saw the establishment of the distinctive patterns of modern Oxford sport and, indeed, of undergraduate leisure.
John Patrick Walsh
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781786941633
- eISBN:
- 9781789629200
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941633.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter examines the depictions of perilous crossings of Haitian boat people in the writings of Emile Ollivier and Jean-Claude Charles. In the first section, the chapter takes up Ollivier’s ...
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This chapter examines the depictions of perilous crossings of Haitian boat people in the writings of Emile Ollivier and Jean-Claude Charles. In the first section, the chapter takes up Ollivier’s novel Passages, alongside his non-fictional writing on migration and exile. The second section treats Charles’s essay De si jolies petites plages, together with the novels Manhattan Blues and Ferdinand je suis à Paris. The chapter puts the fictional and non-fictional texts of each writer in dialogue to bring out their critiques of international policies of immigration and detention. While Ollivier deplores the dispossession of Haitian coastal environments, Charles reveals the dehumanizing spaces of carceral control around the Caribbean and the United States. Along with Philoctète, they inscribe in their texts an ecological politics that takes up the cause of refugees and takes apart the grand narrative of Western modernity as a vision of progress. Ollivier and Charles shed light on the shadows of globalizing political economies and, in particular, on the unwelcoming shores of the United States.Less
This chapter examines the depictions of perilous crossings of Haitian boat people in the writings of Emile Ollivier and Jean-Claude Charles. In the first section, the chapter takes up Ollivier’s novel Passages, alongside his non-fictional writing on migration and exile. The second section treats Charles’s essay De si jolies petites plages, together with the novels Manhattan Blues and Ferdinand je suis à Paris. The chapter puts the fictional and non-fictional texts of each writer in dialogue to bring out their critiques of international policies of immigration and detention. While Ollivier deplores the dispossession of Haitian coastal environments, Charles reveals the dehumanizing spaces of carceral control around the Caribbean and the United States. Along with Philoctète, they inscribe in their texts an ecological politics that takes up the cause of refugees and takes apart the grand narrative of Western modernity as a vision of progress. Ollivier and Charles shed light on the shadows of globalizing political economies and, in particular, on the unwelcoming shores of the United States.
Lillian Hellman
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781496803382
- eISBN:
- 9781496806789
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496803382.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter is an essay which reviews William Faulkner's novel, Mosquitoes, which takes place on a yacht. Mrs. Maurier, a collector of famous people in her own home town of New Orleans, arranges a ...
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This chapter is an essay which reviews William Faulkner's novel, Mosquitoes, which takes place on a yacht. Mrs. Maurier, a collector of famous people in her own home town of New Orleans, arranges a boating party for the more artistic of her friends. Among her guests are a sculptor, a young niece and the niece's mechanically inclined brother, a Jew and his sister, and a poet. The text praises the humor of Faulkner's writing, claiming that it approaches a brilliance that you can rightfully expect only in the writings of a few men. It also suggests that certain portions of Mosquitoes are “overwritten, certain Joycean passages that have no direct place or bearing, parts that are heavy and dull with overloaded description”.Less
This chapter is an essay which reviews William Faulkner's novel, Mosquitoes, which takes place on a yacht. Mrs. Maurier, a collector of famous people in her own home town of New Orleans, arranges a boating party for the more artistic of her friends. Among her guests are a sculptor, a young niece and the niece's mechanically inclined brother, a Jew and his sister, and a poet. The text praises the humor of Faulkner's writing, claiming that it approaches a brilliance that you can rightfully expect only in the writings of a few men. It also suggests that certain portions of Mosquitoes are “overwritten, certain Joycean passages that have no direct place or bearing, parts that are heavy and dull with overloaded description”.
Claire A. Martin
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719085062
- eISBN:
- 9781526104267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085062.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter examines the extent and importance of river transport in England as demonstrated by the extensive use of boats to convey goods and people to and from London.It studies the use of the ...
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This chapter examines the extent and importance of river transport in England as demonstrated by the extensive use of boats to convey goods and people to and from London.It studies the use of the Thames to connect London to the wider countryside and the evolution of passenger services.It also examines the development of boats and the cargo trades, how the industry operated and the price of services.There was extensive regulation, both by the crown and parliament as well as by the mayor and aldermen and this paper considers whether this was constructive or reactionary in nature.It questions whether this changed in the early sixteenth century when the increase in population brought about higher prices, an influx of inexperienced men into the industry and more frequent accidents.Less
This chapter examines the extent and importance of river transport in England as demonstrated by the extensive use of boats to convey goods and people to and from London.It studies the use of the Thames to connect London to the wider countryside and the evolution of passenger services.It also examines the development of boats and the cargo trades, how the industry operated and the price of services.There was extensive regulation, both by the crown and parliament as well as by the mayor and aldermen and this paper considers whether this was constructive or reactionary in nature.It questions whether this changed in the early sixteenth century when the increase in population brought about higher prices, an influx of inexperienced men into the industry and more frequent accidents.
William D. Wilkinson
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813033341
- eISBN:
- 9780813039022
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813033341.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Military History
On January 28, 1915, a bill that concerned merging the U.S. Life-Saving Service with the U.S Revenue Cutter Service became law, and the new organization was referred to as the U.S. Coast Guard. The ...
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On January 28, 1915, a bill that concerned merging the U.S. Life-Saving Service with the U.S Revenue Cutter Service became law, and the new organization was referred to as the U.S. Coast Guard. The establishment of this new organization confirmed the basis for constructing a more efficient operation system in traditional areas of responsibility that included the operation of coastal lifesaving stations. After the Coast Guard was formed, small-boat building at the service's depot became centralized. After the Revenue Cutter Service acquired the area in 1899, it became the shore location of the academy for training Revenue Marine officers. Simultaneously, small-boat design was also centralized in the Office of the Superintendent of Construction and Repair. This chapter illustrates the various developments at the maturity of the modern age for lifesaving crafts.Less
On January 28, 1915, a bill that concerned merging the U.S. Life-Saving Service with the U.S Revenue Cutter Service became law, and the new organization was referred to as the U.S. Coast Guard. The establishment of this new organization confirmed the basis for constructing a more efficient operation system in traditional areas of responsibility that included the operation of coastal lifesaving stations. After the Coast Guard was formed, small-boat building at the service's depot became centralized. After the Revenue Cutter Service acquired the area in 1899, it became the shore location of the academy for training Revenue Marine officers. Simultaneously, small-boat design was also centralized in the Office of the Superintendent of Construction and Repair. This chapter illustrates the various developments at the maturity of the modern age for lifesaving crafts.
John T. Greenwood (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780813181332
- eISBN:
- 9780813181349
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813181332.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter includes Pershing’s July 1917 correspondence about the American Expeditionary Force’s potential points of debarkation, use of railroad lines, locations of supply depots, the use of ...
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This chapter includes Pershing’s July 1917 correspondence about the American Expeditionary Force’s potential points of debarkation, use of railroad lines, locations of supply depots, the use of hospitals, and zones of operation with the French Mission. Pershing described the American presence as boosting Allied morale in part due to a Fourth of July celebration in Paris. Letters from Allied commanders express concern about Russia’s commitment to the Eastern Front and Pershing assuages their worries with studies evaluating the loss of Russia. The chapter includes extensive supplementary information to provide the reader with background information pertinent to Pershing’s letters.Less
This chapter includes Pershing’s July 1917 correspondence about the American Expeditionary Force’s potential points of debarkation, use of railroad lines, locations of supply depots, the use of hospitals, and zones of operation with the French Mission. Pershing described the American presence as boosting Allied morale in part due to a Fourth of July celebration in Paris. Letters from Allied commanders express concern about Russia’s commitment to the Eastern Front and Pershing assuages their worries with studies evaluating the loss of Russia. The chapter includes extensive supplementary information to provide the reader with background information pertinent to Pershing’s letters.
G. H. Bennett
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781949668049
- eISBN:
- 9781949668056
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9781949668049.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter by G.H. Bennett argues that in the historiography of D-Day there has been a failure to analyze and understand the inability of German coastal forces to contest the invasion more ...
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This chapter by G.H. Bennett argues that in the historiography of D-Day there has been a failure to analyze and understand the inability of German coastal forces to contest the invasion more effectively. The outcome of the naval battles off the Normandy coast was not the inevitable result of Allied material superiority. In the the development of German naval strategy since 1870, the Kriegsmarine reached a moment of strategic choice in the spring of 1943. It could either continue to try and fight an oceanic tonnage war, or to pursue a strategy of coastal defense of the German empire in the west. There was a failure to accept, articulate, and imaginatively manage the strategy of coastal defense that might have given the German Army more of a chance on 6 June and the days thereafter. Much of this failure can be put on Admiral Dönitz, although it was also structural. However, the performance of German coastal forces against the Allied invasion flotilla was more significant than has been recognized by historians, serving as an indicator of the greater successes that might have been achieved if a strategy of littoral defense had been adopted.Less
This chapter by G.H. Bennett argues that in the historiography of D-Day there has been a failure to analyze and understand the inability of German coastal forces to contest the invasion more effectively. The outcome of the naval battles off the Normandy coast was not the inevitable result of Allied material superiority. In the the development of German naval strategy since 1870, the Kriegsmarine reached a moment of strategic choice in the spring of 1943. It could either continue to try and fight an oceanic tonnage war, or to pursue a strategy of coastal defense of the German empire in the west. There was a failure to accept, articulate, and imaginatively manage the strategy of coastal defense that might have given the German Army more of a chance on 6 June and the days thereafter. Much of this failure can be put on Admiral Dönitz, although it was also structural. However, the performance of German coastal forces against the Allied invasion flotilla was more significant than has been recognized by historians, serving as an indicator of the greater successes that might have been achieved if a strategy of littoral defense had been adopted.
