Author: Great Britain
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, Anno 1761 [continued to 1806]. By Danby Pickering
Author: Great Britain
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Real Property Statutes Passed in the Reigns of William IV. and Victoria ... Fourth Edition ... Enlarged
Author: Leonard SHELFORD
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Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Languages : en
Pages : 932
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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
A Treatise on Wills
Author: Thomas Jarman
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Category : Wills
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Category : Wills
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Coote's Common Form Practice and Tristram's Contentious Practice of the High Courts of Justice in Granting Probates and Administrations
Author: Henry Charles Coote
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Category : Forms
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
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Category : Forms
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1827-
Author: Great Britain
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Languages : en
Pages : 1286
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Languages : en
Pages : 1286
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A Collection of Statutes Affecting New South Wales
Author: New South Wales
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
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Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Languages : en
Pages : 768
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The Statutes at Large from Magna Charta to [the Forty-first Year of George III
Author: Owen Ruffhead
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators
Author: Stuart Cunningham Macaskie
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Category : Executors and administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : Executors and administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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