Narrative of William Spavens
Author: William Spaven
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Author: William Spaven
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Published: 1796
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Published: 1796
Total Pages: 254
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of a series of naval and sea-life memoirs, this title offers an alternative to the usual top-down history, and has much to say on the topic of press gangs. It includes an eyewitness account of Hawke's great victory in Quiberon Bay in 1759.
Author: William Spavens
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 256
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Published: 1796
Total Pages: 295
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Spavens
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicholas Rogers
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 0826423736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for depriving men of their liberty and carrying them away to a harsh life at sea, sometimes for years at a time. Nicholas Rogers explains exactly how the press gang worked, whom it was aimed at and how successful it was in achieving its ends. He also shows the limits to its operations and the press gang's need for cooperation from local authorities, who were by no means prepared to support it. Written by an expert in the social history of eighteenth-century Britain, it is both well-researched and highly readable.
Author: Margaret Hunt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 131788387X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWas the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion, politics and warfare radically altered the lives of women. Some of these developments caused immense confusion and suffering; others greatly expanded women’s opportunities and worldview – long before the various women’s suffrage movements were more than a glimmer on the horizon. This study pays attention to queens as well as commoners; respectable working women as well as prostitutes; women physicists and mathematicians as well as musicians and actresses; feminists as well as their critics. The result is a rich and morally complex tale of conflict and tragedy, but also of achievement. The book deals with many regions and topics often under-represented in general surveys of European women, including coverage of the Balkans and both European Turkey and Anatolia, of Eastern Europe, of European colonial expansion (particularly the slave trade) and of Muslim, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish women's history. Bringing all of Europe into the narrative of early modern women's history challenges many received assumptions about Europe and women in past times, and provides essential background for dealing with issues of diversity in the Europe of today.