Trading in War: London`s Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson 9780300227482

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Автор: Lincoln Margarette
Название: Trading in War: London`s Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson
ISBN: 9780300227482
Издательство: Wiley yUP
Классификация:

История Британии и Ирландии

Морская история

Экономическая история

ISBN-10: 0300227485
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.74 кг.
Дата издания: 29.05.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 164 x 241 x 30
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars

In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britains military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers, traders, and the network of ordinary citizens that served them. Harnessing little-known archival and archaeological sources, Lincoln recovers a forgotten maritime world. Her gripping narrative highlights the pervasive impact of war, which brought violence, smuggling, pilfering from ships on the river, and a susceptibility to subversive political ideas. It also commemorates the working maritime community: shipwrights and those who built Londons first docks, wives who coped while husbands were at sea, and early trade unions. This meticulously researched work reveals the lives of ordinary Londoners behind the unstoppable rise of Britains sea power and its eventual defeat of Napoleon.