Author: Robert Tomlinson
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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A Plan for a Practicable, Easy, and Constitutional Method, of Manning the Royal Navy
Author: Robert Tomlinson
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Admiralty Library
Author: Great Britain. Admiralty. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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The Evil Necessity
Author: Denver Alexander Brunsman
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393351X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 615
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A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat--it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships' logs, merchants' papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393351X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat--it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships' logs, merchants' papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Bibliography of Economics, 1751-1775
Author: Henry Higgs
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF THE BRITISH NAVY DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Author: ROLAND GREENE USHER (JR.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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The Mariner's Mirror
Author: Leonard George Carr Laughton
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Bibliography of British History, 1485-: Pargellis, Stanley. The eighteenth century, 1714-1789
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Catalogue
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Bibliography of Economics ...: 1751-1775, by Henry Higgs
Author: Henry Higgs
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature: Segment I, 1721-1776
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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