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The Mammoth Book of Life Before the Mast: Sailors' Eye- 9780786708116, paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- Lewis, Jon E. [Editor]
- ISBN
- 9780786708116
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Running Press
ISBN-10
0786708115
ISBN-13
9780786708116
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1715979
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mammoth Book of Life before the Mast : Sailors' Eyewitness Stories from the Age of Fighting Ships
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Military / Naval, Military / General, Literary
Genre
Fiction, History
Book Series
Mammoth Bks.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Table Of Content
PrefacePart I: On Becoming an Evil Self1. Two Faces of Evil: An Introduction2. The Human ConditionGood and Bad -Immoral Rapprochement -Understanding Obedience to Authority -Obeying Authority and Becoming Morally Sullied3. The Moral CommunityCommon-Sense Morality -Moral Drift -The People of Le Chambon4. Characterizing EvilActs of Evil5. The Psychology of DoublingThe Problem -Doubling and Multiple Personality Disorder -The Psychology of Doubling -Moral Disassociation>p>Part II: The Institutions6. American Slavery and the HolocaustConception of the Victims -The Institutions7. Murderous Extermination and Natal AlienationDoing Justice to the Difference -Ultimates in Evil: Alienation and Extermination -Self-Hatred>p>Part III: Surviving into the Future8. After the AshesJews -Blacks -Historical Contexts -Group Autonomy9. The Fate of Blacks and JewsThe General Problem of Cooperation -Neither Coercive nor Affirming Cooperation -Cooperation and Having a Narrative -Blacks and Jews>p>Name IndexSubject Index
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The stirring firsthand accounts of the real-life naval adventures behind the popular historical sagas of Patrick O'Brian and C. F. Forester. The twenty true-life adventures in this exhilarating volume capture the glory and the gore of the great age of naval warfare. They epitomize that era from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century -- the age of the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812 -- when combat at sea was won not by the impersonal power of technology but by sheer human wit, courage, and endurance. Culled from the memoirs, diaries, and letters of celebrated officers as well as common sailors, the collection not only includes exciting accounts of such decisive naval engagements as Admiral Horatio Nelson's on the Battle of the Nile in 1798 or Midshipman Roberts' on the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 but also offers revealing glimpses into the hardships suffered daily aboard a man-of-war: the scurvy, whippings, storms, piracy, press gangs, drudgery, boredom, and cannibalism. Here, too, are the salt spray and grapeshot and bravery, the strategic errors and the thrill of victory. While in fiction many books strive to chronicle or re-create the colorful and heroic Age of Sail, for heart-rending immediacy and poignant truth no words can match those of the English, French, and American men who were there and whose tales make history live on every page of this anthology., The stirring firsthand accounts of the real-life naval adventures behind the popular historical sagas of Patrick O'Brian and C. F. Forester. The twenty true-life adventures in this exhilarating volume capture the glory and the gore of the great age of naval warfare. They epitomize that era from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century -- the age of the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812 -- when combat at sea was won not by the impersonal power of technology but by sheer human wit, courage, and endurance. Culled from the memoirs, diaries, and letters of celebrated officers as well as common sailors, the collection not only includes exciting accounts of such decisive naval engagements as Admiral Horatio Nelson's on the Battle of the Nile in 1798 or Midshipman Roberts' on the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 but also offers revealing glimpses into the hardships suffered daily aboard a man-of-war: the scurvy, whippings, storms, piracy, press gangs, drudgery, boredom, and cannibalism. Here, too, are the salt spray and grapeshot and bravery, the strategic errors and the thrill of victory.While in fiction many books strive to chronicle or re-create the colorful and heroic Age of Sail, for heart-rending immediacy and poignant truth no words can match those of the English, French, and American men who were there and whose tales make history live on every page of this anthology.
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