Year: 2025 Language: English Author: Kevin Brown Genre: Historical, Textbook Publisher: Pen and Sword History Edition: Kindle edition May 30, 2025 ISBN: 9781036119744 Format: FB3 Quality: eBook Pages count: 249 Description: A fresh exploration of the Titanic disaster reveals how class, gender, and racial prejudices shaped contemporary responses. When it set sail on its ill-fated maiden voyage, RMS Titanic was a marvel of modern technology and the latest in luxury, providing a gilded setting and false sense of security for its passengers to act out their imagined ideal lives in a reflection of pre-First World War society. When disaster struck in the form of an iceberg four days into its maiden voyage, that society was frozen in a moment of time, revealing class, gender and racial discrimination that pervaded contemporary social attitudes. Eyewitness accounts evoke the horror of the night and reveal the underlying ideas of the day. They also show that women played a less passive role than expected of them. The responses to the sinking by politicians across the spectrum, the labour movement and suffragettes, suffragists and anti-suffragists is explored to show more critical contemporary responses to the disaster that challenge the heroic narrative. It was a world that was never so confident in modernity after the disaster but yet still held on to illusions of chivalry.
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Titanic: Ship of Lost Illusions
Language: English
Author: Kevin Brown
Genre: Historical, Textbook
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Edition: Kindle edition May 30, 2025
ISBN: 9781036119744
Format: FB3
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 249
Description: A fresh exploration of the Titanic disaster reveals how class, gender, and racial prejudices shaped contemporary responses.
When it set sail on its ill-fated maiden voyage, RMS Titanic was a marvel of modern technology and the latest in luxury, providing a gilded setting and false sense of security for its passengers to act out their imagined ideal lives in a reflection of pre-First World War society. When disaster struck in the form of an iceberg four days into its maiden voyage, that society was frozen in a moment of time, revealing class, gender and racial discrimination that pervaded contemporary social attitudes.
Eyewitness accounts evoke the horror of the night and reveal the underlying ideas of the day. They also show that women played a less passive role than expected of them. The responses to the sinking by politicians across the spectrum, the labour movement and suffragettes, suffragists and anti-suffragists is explored to show more critical contemporary responses to the disaster that challenge the heroic narrative. It was a world that was never so confident in modernity after the disaster but yet still held on to illusions of chivalry.
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