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"Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines highlights specialized naval vessels used for collecting intelligence, conducting electronic warfare and their impact on military operations and national security"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction : "A metaphysics of absence" : Filipino Americans in the margins of U.S. history
• Colonial past, neocolonial present
• The Navy's search for postcolonial servants
• Adrift from the American Dream
• Tales of resistance
• The Navy's "Filipino servant problem"
• Achieving the American Dream.

"Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan's story of the critical role played by Filipino sailors in putting an end to race-based military policies. Constrained by systemic exploitation, Filipino stewards responded with direct complaints to flag officers and chaplains, rating transfer requests that flooded the bureaucracy, and refusals to work. Their actions had a decisive impact on seagoing military's elimination of the antiquated steward position. Paligutan looks at these Filipino sailors as agents of change while examining the military system through the lens of white supremacy, racist perceptions of Asian males, and the motives of Filipinos who joined the armed forces of the power that had colonized their nation. Insightful and dramatic, Lured by the American Dream is the untold story of how Filipino servicepersons overcame tradition and hierarchy in their quest for dignity"-- Provided by publisher.

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. A "Metaphysics of Absence": Filipino Americans in the Margins of U.S. History
• Chapter 1. Colonial Past, Neocolonial Present
• Chapter 2. The Navy's Search for Postcolonial ServantsIllustrations
• Chapter 3. Adrift from the American Dream
• Chapter 4. Tales of Resistance
• Chapter 5. The Navy's "Filipino Servant Problem"
• Chapter 6. Achieving the American DreamEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover.
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Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan's story of the critical role played by Filipino sailors in putting an end to race-based military policies. Constrained by systemic exploitation, Filipino stewards responded with direct complaints to flag officers and chaplains, rating transfer requests that flooded the bureaucracy, and refusals to work. Their actions had a decisive impact on seagoing military's elimination of the antiquated steward position. Paligutan looks at these Filipino sailors as agents of change while examining the military system through the lens of white supremacy, racist perceptions of Asian males, and the motives of Filipinos who joined the armed forces of the power that had colonized their nation. Insightful and dramatic, Lured by the American Dream is the untold story of how Filipino servicepersons overcame tradition and hierarchy in their quest for dignity.
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• De la vergue à la potence
• 1. La ville portuaire, un territoire rebelle ?
• Retour sur images
• La part du réel
• Données
• Le labeur et le crime
• Les marins comme symbole
• Le port de la délinquance
• Des troubles collectifs
• 2. Les turbulences des quais
• Refuser de servir l'État
• Les deux modèles
• Résister
• La désertion comme phénomène social
• Fuir les quais
• Complicités
• Défendre son gagne-pain
• Et encore la guerre...
• Les gens de mer entre travail et capital
• 3. Le mot et les choses
• Saisies de la mutinerie
• Qu'est-ce qu'une mutinerie ?
• Le délicat enseignement des chiffres
• Le domaine de la violence
• Les sources de la groume
• Vivre(s) à bord
• Voiles au travail
• Coups et blessures
• 4. Les houles révolutionnaires
• Une longue, deux brèves
• Le long moment révolutionnaire français
• Tempêtes sur la Navy
• Flottes en révolutions : l'ancien et le nouveau
• Des raisons toujours maritimes
• Politique et mutineries
• 5. La piraterie, refuge et idéal des mutins et déserteurs ?
• Les pirates, des mutins et des déserteurs
• La piraterie forme ultime de la mutinerie ?
• Une difficile traque
• Portraits de mutins et déserteurs en pirates
• Pirates "malgré eux" mais mutins consentants ?
• Mutins et déserteurs, forbans de plein gré
• Mutineries et désertions en piraterie
• Code de bonne conduite pour hors-la-loi ?
• Rébellions en piraterie ?
• Une culture de la revendication ?
• 6. Rébellions, sociétés maritimes et pouvoirs
• Qui sont les rebelles ?
• Les uns et les autres
• Papiers subversifs
• Des rebelles face aux pouvoirs
• Les moyens de la répression
• Interroger la pratique
• Les clefs de la mansuétude
• 7. Lectures sociales, lectures culturelles
• Quel sens donner aux révoltes ?
• Des hiérarchies sociales... aux transgressions
• Du radicalisme maritime ?
• Place aux imaginaires
• Les supports de l'aventure
• Les figures du récit
• Un réel en représentation.

"Pendez haut et court ces mutins et déserteurs, cette canaille des mers !" Les marins ne sont-ils pas connus pour faire le coup de poing, manier le couteau, contester les ordres, se mutiner, déserter pour un oui ou pour un non ? Et glisser naturellement en piraterie ? Ne méritent ils pas le gibet, ces libertins dangereux qui troublent la vie à bord des navires et au sein des villes portuaires ouvertes sur l'ailleurs, réceptacles de populations louches, territoires de turbulences où fleurissent tavernes, tripots, bordels et dont les quais regorgent de voleurs et de coupe jarrets ? Scrutant l'Europe occidentale des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, cet ouvrage majeur et passionnant décrypte notre mémoire collective, façonnée hier par la littérature, aujourd'hui par le cinéma et la bande dessinée. Mais les navires et les ports d'antan étaient-ils vraiment des repaires et des fabriques de gibiers de potence ? C'est à une minutieuse relecture de ces légendes, mais aussi de la mer comme aventure, que nous invitent Alain Cabantous et Gilbert Buti."--Page 4 of cover.

Memoirs of former members of the former Naval Force of Ethiopia.

• "We're sending you up to Great Lakes."
• "Don't put your time in Negroes."
• "I just don't believe you can do the job."
• "We are discriminated against in every way."
• "Would it be demanding too much to demand full citizenship?"
• "A cordial spirit of experimentation"
• "As good as any fighting men the US Navy has"
• "You are now men of Hampton."
• "I feel very emphatically that we should commission a few Negroes."
• "You can make me an officer, but my parents made me a gentleman."
• "His intelligence and judgment are exceptional."
• "You forget the color and remember the rank."
• "There is that salute you never got."

"This is the story of the thirteen black men who broke one of the military's most rigid racial barriers and integrated the officer corps of the United States Navy."-- Provided by publisher

• Part 1. The Ships
• Destroyers and Liberty Ships
• USS Liberty
• Clickbeetle, the spy ships
• The Pueblo orders Rule of the Sea
• Part 2. Leadership and risk analysis
• Leadership
• Risk analysis
• Part 3. Reactions on the Pueblo
• Within the military chain of command
• Within the intelligence community
• In South Korea
• In the Situation Room, Washington
• At the White House
• Reaction of Congress
• Reaction of the public
• Part 4. Juche
• Why North Korea seized the Pueblo
• The Washington viewpoint
• The North Korean perspective
• Juche
• Elements of Juche
• The propaganda of North Korea
• The effect of Juche and Kim's propaganda on the treatment of the Pueblo prisoners
• Part 5. Negotiations for Freedom
• Part 6. The Navy Court of Inquiry.

"For President Lyndon Johnson, 1968 was a year of calamity, including the hijacking of the USS Pueblo in international waters off North Korea. Drawing on extensive research, including summaries of White House meetings and conversations, the author answers these questions and reviews the events and flawed decisions that led to Pueblo's capture"-- Provided by publisher

Autobiographical reminiscences of Mohāmmāda Ādbula Majida, b. 1932, a retired naval officer from Bangladesh

Autobiographical reminiscences of a retired naval officer from Bangladesh about his memories as a prisoners of war during 1971 liberation movement

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Challenge of Command
• 3. Authority and Command
• 4. Anxiety and Failure
• 5. Difficult Superiors: Flag Officers and First Lords
• 6. Difficult Inferiors: Flag Officers and their Subordinates
• 7. Admirals and Mutineers
• 8. Admiral in the Georgian Patronage Network
• 9. `Service Interest': Followers, Sons of the Service and the Claims of Merit
• 10. Admirals' Ambitions: Promotion and Employment
• 11. Admirals' Ambitions: Honour and Riches
• 12. Admirals Afloat
• 13. Admirals Ashore Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navy's critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals' roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically. British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 considers the professional lives of well-known and more obscure admirals, vice-admirals and rear-admirals. It examines the demands of naval command, flag officers' understanding of their authority and their approach to exercising it, their ambitions and failures, their professional interactions, and their lives afloat and onshore. In exploring these themes, it draws on a wide range of correspondence and other primary source material. By taking a broad thematic approach, this book provides a multi-faceted account of admirals' professional lives that extends beyond the insights that are found in biographical studies of individual flag officers. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of British naval history.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Wrens begin 1917-19.
• Chapter 2: We don't need women if we're not at war 1919-1938
• Chapter 3: We fought together 1939-45.
• Chapter 4: Assisting quietly in the Empire 1946-75
• Chapter 5: Struggling Seawards 1975-1994.
• Chapter 6: Actually established as equals 1995-2012.ChronologyGlossary.
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As nurses, `Jenny Wrens', and above all as wives and mothers, women have quietly kept the Royal Navy afloat throughout history. From its earliest years, women maintained homes and families while men battled at sea, providing vital support behind the scenes. Later they also ran maritime businesses and worked as civilians in naval offices and dockyards. From 1884, women were able to serve as nurses in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service and, from 1917, they became members of the Women's Royal Naval Service. The outbreak of both world wars gave women special opportunities and saw the role of women as Wrens, nursing sisters, VADs and medics change and develop. In more recent times, the development of equal rights legislation has fundamentally changed naval life: women are now truly in the navy and do `men's jobs' at sea. Using previously-unpublished first-hand material, this is the first book to reflect all the diverse roles that women have played in Royal Navy services. Jo Stanley situates women's naval activities within a worldwide context of women who worked, travelled and explored new options. This book provides vital new perspectives on both women's military history and the wider history of women who desired to work on or near the sea.
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• Introduction: the old men and me
• Refuge on the Schuylkill
• Life's ebb tide
• A rocky start
• The ship comes ashore
• A curious character
• Deserving old men, once young
• The few, the fortunate
• Shipmates
• What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
• "A house of refuge for exotic malefactors"
• Hard lives, tolls collected
• Minds decayed, minds disordered
• Leaving asylum
• Voyage's end
• Safe harbor-finally found
• Epilogue: Seeking the old men today
• Appendix: Sailors of color in the pre-Civil War U.S. Navy
• The Naval Asylum and its beneficiaries: a survey of sources.

Ungentle Goodnights uses the records of the United States Naval Asylum (later the United States Naval Home), a residence for disabled and elderly sailors and Marines established by the U.S. government, to recover the lives of the 541 men who were admitted there as lifetime residents between 1831 and 1866. The records of the Naval Asylum are an especially rich source for discovering these lower-deck lives because would-be residents were required to submit summaries of their naval careers as part of the admission process. Using these and related records, published and manuscript, it is possible to reconstruct the veterans' lives from their teenage years (and sometimes earlier) until their deaths. Previous historians who have written about the pre-Civil War naval enlisted force have depended on published nineteenth-century sailor and Marine autobiographies, which may not accurately reflect the realities of enlisted life. Ungentle Goodnights seeks to discover the life experiences of real Marines and naval sailors, not a few of whom were misbehaving, crafty, and engaging individuals who feature prominently in the book.
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• Introduction: the old men and me: a search for enlisted history
• A note on terminology
• Refuge on the Schuylkill
• Life's ebb tide
• A rocky start
• The ship comes ashore
• A curious character
• Deserving old men, once young
• The few, the fortunate
• Shipmates
• What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
• A house of refuge for exotic malefactors
• Hard lives, tolls collected
• Minds decayed, minds disordered
• Leaving asylum
• Voyage's end
• Safe harbor-finally found
• Epilogue: Seeking the old men today
• Appendix: Sailors of color in the pre-Civil War U.S. Navy
• The Naval Asylum and its beneficiaries: a survey of sources.

Ungentle Goodnights uses the records of the United States Naval Asylum (later the United States Naval Home), a residence for disabled and elderly sailors and Marines established by the U.S. government, to recover the lives of the 541 men who were admitted there as lifetime residents between 1831 and 1866. The records of the Naval Asylum are an especially rich source for discovering these lower-deck lives because would-be residents were required to submit summaries of their naval careers as part of the admission process. Using these and related records, published and manuscript, it is possible to reconstruct the veterans' lives from their teenage years (and sometimes earlier) until their deaths. Previous historians who have written about the pre-Civil War naval enlisted force have depended on published nineteenth-century sailor and Marine autobiographies, which may not accurately reflect the realities of enlisted life. Ungentle Goodnights seeks to discover the life experiences of real Marines and naval sailors, not a few of whom were misbehaving, crafty, and engaging individuals who feature prominently in the book.
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