The sea officers: gentility and professionalism in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815

<p>This thesis argues that British naval officers provide a useful category of analysis for social and cultural historians. While previous scholarship has largely ignored naval officers or treated them as equivalent, socially and professionally, to army officers or the traditional professions,...

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Main Author: Wilson, E
Other Authors: Rodger, N
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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