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"The basis for On Contested Shores has been under construction since before the Commandant released the planning guidance. As career Marine officers, who spent very little time at sea, the editors have long been concerned that the Marine Corps was becoming too land-centric, heavily reflecting the characteristics of a second land army. This has been true since 1991, when the Marine Corps participated in a land campaign in Iraq, and especially since 2001, when it participated in three land campaigns: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. To fight these battles, the Marine Corps became heavier, upgraded equipment, and generally focused on counterinsurgency tactics vice amphibious warfare. While the Marine Corps always steps up to fight alongside the U.S. Army, its purpose is naval campaigns fought alongside the U.S. Navy. This book is in part a way to help figure out how to regain and maintain the skills necessary for maritime operations"--
Landing operations --- Amphibious warfare --- History --- United States. --- Disembarkation --- Joint operations (Military science) --- Troops, Landing of --- Transportation, Military --- Unified operations (Military science) --- U.S. Marine Corps --- United States Marine Corps --- USMC --- military --- warfare --- amphibious operations --- USMC (United States Marine Corps)
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A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great FamineThe standard story of the exodus during Ireland's Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself.Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called "coffin ships" they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences of the emigrants aboard these vessels offer us a much more complex understanding of this pivotal moment in modern history. Based on archival research on three continents and written in clear, crisp prose, The Coffin Ship analyzes the emigrants' own letters and diaries to unpack the dynamic social networks that the Irish built while voyaging overseas. At every step of the journey-including the treacherous weeks at sea-these migrants created new threads in the worldwide web of the Irish diaspora.Colored by the long-lost voices of the emigrants themselves, this is an original portrait of an overlooked aspect of the migration process that left an undeniable mark on their new lives overseas. An indispensable read, The Coffin Ship makes an ambitious argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central, dynamic element of migration history.
Seafaring life. --- Ocean travel --- Irish --- Immigrants --- Passenger ships --- Immigrants --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Ireland --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- Ireland --- Emigration and immigration --- History --- History --- American History. --- Assisted Migration. --- Black ‘47. --- Burials. --- Canals. --- Charity. --- Cholera. --- Cleanliness. --- Clothing. --- Communication. --- Community. --- Convict Transportation. --- Convicts. --- Delayed Departures. --- Discipline. --- Disembarkation. --- Embarkation. --- Emigrant Mortality Rates. --- Emigrant Relief. --- Family. --- Funerals. --- Gender. --- Hierarchy. --- Housing. --- Immigration. --- Landlords. --- Liverpool. --- Maritime History. --- Mourning. --- Popular Press. --- Power. --- Railroads. --- Remittances. --- Resistance. --- Sea Stores. --- Seas and Oceans. --- Social Class. --- Solidarity. --- Surgeons. --- Theft and fraud. --- Theft. --- Transnational. --- Transportation. --- Typhus. --- Violence. --- Walking. --- Work. --- Workhouses.
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