Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815-1940: A Sailor's Progress?

Introduction - Joanne Begiato, Karen Downing and Steven Gray
Part I: Nineteenth century masculinities Regency masculinity? The place of Napoleonic War veterans in the history of masculinities - Karen Downing "A splendid body of men": Fishermen as model males in late-nineteenth-century British imagery - Mary O'Neill Part II: Civilisation and race "He was possessed of the very first natural abilities": American mariners' construction of masculinity in the Early Republic - Dane A. Morrison
The ocean, the Orient, and manly drama: The persuasive masculinities on display in the North Pacific that influenced the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa - Bruce Makoto Arnold Part III: Technological change Displaying the wooden walls of Old England: The HMS Foudroyant as a monument to lost skills and manhood, 1892-1897 - Alexa Price
Bachelor sailors? Negotiating masculinity, mobility, and domesticity in c. 1880s to the 1930s Finland -  Laika Nevalainen Row, row, row your boat: How the Marine Corps engendered landing parties in the US Department of the Navy, 1898-1934 - Heather Venable
Part IV: Patriotism, citizenship and respectability From prodigal sons to emblems of empire: Maritime manhood and labour reform in the Wilhelmine Merchant Fleet - David Brandon Dennis Mapping masculinities in New York City's sailortown - Johnathan Thayer
The shrine of manly virtues: Heroic masculinity and HMS Victory in the 1920s - Sarah Westbury Part V: Nascent and Fragile masculinities Masculinity, the navalist leagues and the Anglo-German naval race - Neil Fleming
There will never be another hero like Nelson: Overcoming frailty in 1918 - Lucie Dutton
Conclusions and future directions - Quintin Colville