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American Prisoners of War in the Captive Atlantic, 1812–1815 / Hooker, Peter ; Candlin, Kit

Hooker, Peter	Journal Article
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By 1812, a sophisticated system had emerged in the greater Anglo Atlantic for processing and housing of prisoners of war. This affected American captives of the British in the first decades of the new United States republic. Through the interrogation of three narratives written by captive American mariners, this article explores the connections between the greater Atlantic, the development of British imperial systems, and the development of ideas relating to American identity during the early republic. It underscores the significance of captivity in the Atlantic World and the contested notions of proto-American nationalism and identity that underpinned imprisonment by the British as American prisoners complemented and contested the authority of the British Empire around the Atlantic.

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American Prisoners of War ; Captive Atlantic ; 1812–1815,

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To Die Gallantly”?—the Role of the Surface Fleet in German Naval Strategy, 1919–41 / Hooker, Peter

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While the U-boat dominated Germany’s naval war from 1942 on, its surface fleet played a far more significant strategic role to that point than is appreciated. The construction of that fleet was not the result of myopia but of considered appraisals of the German navy’s performance in the First World War and the development of naval technology during the interwar period.

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