Trading in War - Londons Maritime World in the Age of Cook and NelsonPevná vazba
A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary WarsIn the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the…
Specifikacia Trading in War - Londons Maritime World in the Age of Cook and NelsonPevná vazba
A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary WarsIn the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain's 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
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