White-Jacket

White-JacketWhite Jacket (1850) is an adventure novel by American writer Herman Melville. Based on the authors personal experience as a seaman in the United States NavyMelville spent fourteen months aboard the USS United Statesthe novel was both commercially successful and influential for reforming US Naval policy. Following its publication, and aided by advocacy from journalists and politicians, flogging was banned as a punishment in the navy. The novel is seen

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for a wider audience than the youth culture who flocked to more transgressive fare

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and how political elites respond-or do not respond-to public polls

Using case-studies of nations in both Europe and Latin America the contributors to this unusual comparative volume attempt to answer these and other questions from a revisionist and empirical viewpoint incorporating the latest research and recasting the debate in the light of recent discussions about modernity

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