Admiral Lord Nelson

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • David Cannadine

      Pages 1-4

3. Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Nelson and the British Navy: Seamanship, Leadership, Originality

      • N. A. M. Rodger

      Pages 7-29

   3. Nelson and His ‘Band of Brothers’: Friendship, Freemasonry, Fraternity

      • Martyn Downer

      Pages 30-48

   4. Nelson and the People: Manliness, Patriotism and Body Politics

      • Kathleen Wilson

      Pages 49-66

   5. Nelson and Women: Marketing, Representations and the Female Consumer

      • Kate Williams

      Pages 67-89

4. Legacy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Nelson Apotheosised: The Creation of the Nelson Legend

      • Colin White

      Pages 93-114

   3. Nelson Entombed: The Military and Naval Pantheon in St Paul’s Cathedral

      • Holger Hoock

      Pages 115-143

   4. Nelson Goes Global: The Nelson Myth in Britain and Beyond

      • John M. MacKenzie

      Pages 144-165

   5. Nelson Afloat: A Hero Among the World’s Navies

      • John B. Hattendorf

      Pages 166-192

5. Back Matter

   Pages 193-201

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Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson was a colourful and complex character, whose supremely successful naval career quickly attained legendary status. By 1803 he was Britain's paramount hero and already maimed with the loss of an arm and blind in one eye. He returned to war when called back in May and spent a further two years at sea before dying at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Today, two centuries after his death, the 'immortal memory' of Nelson endures. In this book, leading historians provide a radical reappraisal of his life and times.

• Britain
• death
• Great Britain
• media
• memory

Praise for History and the Media:

'interesting and illuminating essays on diverse aspects of this recent cultural and intellectual revolution [the flourishing of history in the media]. - The Sunday Telegraph

History made and in the making, and the time-loops it both creates and follows, prove endlessly fascinating in these writings.Financial Times Magazine

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'At last, What is History? gets the successor it deserves...extremely readable and highly stimulating.' - Roy Porter

'...destined to become a must-have text for today's history students.' - Tristram Hunt, BBC History Magazine

'...he has assembled a distinguished team who convey, with spirit and lucidity, the scale and excitement of discovery that 40 years of specialization has produced.' - Blair Worden, Sunday Telegraph

'...should prove invaluable to graduate students and scholars...' - Claude Ury, History: Reviews of New Books

'Readers will find reliable and insightful information presented without recourse to jargon.' - E. A. Breisach, Choice

'A fresh look at the icon .. a thought-provoking book.' - John Crossland, The Times Higher Education Supplement

'All the essays in the Cannadine collection share the recognition that the Nelson legend itself is a topic for investigation. And like the best collected essays, a major effect of Admiral Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy will be in inspiring other historians to future work - and not just on Nelson. For this reason the work is relevant for students in areas beyond naval and British history.' - H-Net Reviews (H-Albion)

• Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK

  David Cannadine

MARTYN DOWNER Author JOHN HATTENDORF United States Naval War College, Rhode Island, USA HOLGER HOOCK Faculty of History and Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK JOHN MACKENZIE Department of History, University of Aberdeen, UK NICHOLAS RODGER Department of History, University of Essex, UK COLIN WHITE National Maritime Museum and Royal Naval Museum, UK KATHLEEN WILSON State University of New York, USA

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