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Will the real Jack Tar please stand up? -- Impressed : becoming Jack Tar -- Well rigged : cross-dressing, patriotism, and parody -- Married to Britannia : musicals, mutinies, and manhood -- Behold our empire : loyalists, reformers, and radicals -- Ships without sailors? : nostalgia for Jack Tar in the industrial age

Aimed at researchers, students and all interested in history, this multidisciplinary study offers a spectacular view of the history of Europe's largest lake. Adopting the lens of coastal history, this edited volume presents the development of the vast Great Lake's catchment area over a long-time span, from archaeological traces to Viking routes and from fishery huts to luxury villas of the power elite. It reflects on people's sensory-historical relationships with aquatic nature, and considers the benefits and harms of power plants and factories to human communities and the environment.
The focus of the study is on the central and northern parts of the shores of Lake Ladoga, which belonged to Finnish rule between 1812 and 1944. The multidisciplinary approach permits an unusually wide range of questions. What has the Great Lake meant to local residents in cultural and emotional terms? How should we conceptualize the extensive and diverse networks of activities that surrounded the lake? What kind of Ladoga beaches did the Finns have to cede to the Soviet Union at the end of the war in 1944? How have Finns reminisced about their lost homelands? How have the Russians transformed the profile of the region, and what is the state of Ladoga's waters today?
The volume is the first overall presentation of Lake Ladoga, which today is entirely part of Russia, aimed at an international readership. The rich source material of cross-border research consists of both diverse archival material and chronicles, folklore, reminiscence, and modern satellite images. The history of Lake Ladoga helps readers to understand better the economic, political, and socio-cultural characteristics of the cross-border areas, and the dynamics of the vulnerable border regions.

"Rewilding" is an increasingly influential concept, though the widespread, if unplanned, rewilding that takes place in "no man's land" or demilitarized zones has received limited attention from environmental historians, and none at all from historians of islands. When former military bases or conflict areas are opened up to development and tourism, the continued presence of the new non-human residents poses both opportunities and challenges. This article will consider two late twentieth-century examples, Quemoy and the Falklands, where the classic traits of insularity—the natural limit of resources and the geographical separation from the mainland—were compounded by the presence of minefields and stringent military control, permitting the emergence of an insular military ecology. The later discovery of the "rewilded" areas by journalists, nature writers, and companies promoting tourism invited reflection on the ability of nature to regenerate and on the larger meanings of post-conflict landscapes. Islands figure here, once again, as sites of the production of knowledge and as opportunities for experimentation, yet in ways which differ from the examples considered by earlier historians of islands.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- anupama rao and steven pierce Discipline and the Other Body: Humanitarianism, Violence, and the Colonial Exception -- Defining and Defiling the Criminal Body at the Cape of Good Hope: Punishing the Crime of Suicide under Dutch East India Company Rule, circa 1652-1795 -- The Burden of Louis Congo and the Evolution of Savagery in Colonial Louisiana -- ''Sinful Propensities'': Piracy, Sodomy, and Empire in the Rhetoric of Naval Reform, 1770-1870 -- The Raj's Other Great Game: Policing the Sexual Frontiers of the Indian Army in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Problems of Violence, States of Terror: Torture in Colonial India -- Punishment and the Political Body: Flogging and Colonialism in Northern Nigeria -- Footbinding and Anti-footbinding in China: The Subject of Pain in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- An Economy of Su√ering: Addressing the Violence of Discipline in Railway Workers' Petitions to the Agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47 -- Spirit Discipline: Gender, Islam, and Hierarchies of Treatment in Postcolonial Northern Nigeria -- Selections from Castaway -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index