The British Seaman, 1200-1860
Author: Christopher Lloyd
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 319
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The British Seaman 1200-1860
Author: Christopher Lloyd
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780838677087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"There are dozens of books on the great figues in naval history such as Drake and Nelson. By contrast very little has appeared in print about the British seaman, without whom there would have been neither merchant ships to sail nor men-of-war to command. Apart from vague ideas about the press gang and the mutinies at Spithead and the Nore more people have little conception of what his life was like, even in such important matters as how he was recruited or paid or fed. His courage, his seamanship, his endurance have always been taken for granted. It is Professor Lloyd's achievement to have rescued hime from anonymity and to have portrayed him in his true colors." -- Taken from the dust jacket.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Author: Marcus Rediker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521379830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis brilliant account of the maritime world of the eighteenth-century reconstructs in detail the social and cultural milieu of Anglo-American seafaring and piracy. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Merchant Seamen's Health, 1860-1960
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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1843839520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Guide to the Sources of British Military History
Author: Robin HIgham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 1317390210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned to fill an overlooked gap, this book, originally published in 1972, provides a single unified introduction to bibliographical sources of British military history. Moreover it includes guidance in a number of fields in which no similar source is available at all, giving information on how to obtain acess to special collections and private archives, and links military history, especially during peacetime, with the development of science and technology.
Foreign Jack Tars
Author: Sara Caputo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 100919979X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores foreign seamen's employment in the British Royal Navy of the French Wars, and deconstructs the meanings of 'foreignness' itself.
Liberty on the Waterfront
Author: Paul A. Gilje
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780812237566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In its ambitious sweep and encyclopedic detail, Gilje's rendering of American maritime culture during the tumultuous century from 1750 to 1850 is unlikely to be surpassed."--"William and Mary Quarterly"
Seascapes
Author: Jerry H. Bentley
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2007-04-30
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0824864247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world. The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that inform and explain historical experiences of maritime regions. Another set discusses efforts—some more successful than others—to impose political and military control over maritime regions. A third group focuses on issues of social history such as labor organization, information flows, and the development of political consciousness among subaltern populations. The final essays deal with pirates and efforts to control them in Mediterranean, Japanese, and Atlantic waters.
Publications of James Edward Oglethorpe
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2021-10-15
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0820361062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublications of James Edward Oglethorpe contains various writings by the founder of the Georgia colony, supplemented by introductions and notes to further the reader’s understanding of the texts. The collection of articles, letters, essays, and reports gives a reader insight into the life and mind of the man who shaped the history of the state of Georgia with an agenda of social reformation. This book satisfies a reader’s curiosity both regarding Oglethorpe himself as well as life in the colony, through its inclusion of colony reports alongside letters in which Oglethorpe expands on his ideas about British America. The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Britain and its internal others, 1750–1800
Author: Dana Y. Rabin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-10-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1526120429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rule of law, an ideology of equality and universality that justified Britain's eighteenth-century imperial claims, was the product not of abstract principles but imperial contact. As the Empire expanded, encompassing greater religious, ethnic and racial diversity, the law paradoxically contained and maintained these very differences. This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses: the Jewish Naturalization Act and the Elizabeth Canning case (1753–54); the Somerset Case (1771–72); the Gordon Riots (1780); the mutinies of 1797; and Union with Ireland (1800). Each of these cases adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London – from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics. The demands of these internal others to equality before the law drew them into the legal system, challenging longstanding notions of English identity and exposing contradictions in the rule of law.
