Terry Crowdy, Formidable. Arthur Flint’s War Against Tirpitz and the Kamikazes by Robert L. Shoop
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviews 501 nursed him back to health after contracting rheumatic fever with "a mixture of laudanum, camphorated spirits, ginger, and capsicum" (17).Far from harming the ship and crew with her presence, Barkley's medicinal knowledge, French proficiency, natural sea-legs, constitution, and enterprising spirit were likely key in facilitating Captain Barkley's fame and name, which is still inscribed on the maps of Vancouver Island's west coast to this day (i.e.Barkley Sound).Female voices are far and few in maritime historical scholarship.As such, Converse and Barkley's joint stories put words to a world (and a subfield) that has largely barred women from the record.Be that as it may, as British colonists by nature, Converse acknowledges Frances' account of her and Captain Barkley's voyages as one "filtered through the lens of British merchant seamen" (115) who held colonial prejudices and benefited from colonial activities, although they were not directly involved in colonizing the land (5).Therefore, while Converse reports that Barkley did not voice her opinion in her original notes (5), her memoir's inclusions and omissions implicitly demonstrate her innate motive, subjectivity, and bias from the perspective of an educated Briton, exposed to the luxuries and etiquette of the elite while abroad.This does not nullify the value of Barkley's record, but this subjectivity serves to clarify Converse and Barkley's stylization, grammar, descriptions, anecdotes, and other literary choices and allows the reader to think critically about their story's depictions.In sum, Converse's work breathes new life into Barkley's understudied two-hundred-year-old tale.As the first European woman to circumnavigate the world with her husband, Frances' life is certainly remarkable, and her first-hand testimony aboard the Imperial Eagle and the Halcyon contributes critically to women's experiences at sea during the early modern period.It also includes valuable information pertaining to the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific, such as their adornment, customs, trading practices, and relationships with Europeans.If readers are curious about histories of capitalism, women, shipping, Indigeneity, geopolitics, and imperialism's pervasive effect on the early modern world, Converse's reconstruction of Frances Barkley's life encapsulates all these facets and much more.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.047 | 0.024 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".