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ISBN:
9780300235388
Note:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON CONVENTIONS -- Map -- Images -- INTRODUCTION Forgotten Histories -- 1 LONDON'S RIVERSIDE -- Churches -- Civic buildings -- Wapping residents -- Crossing the river -- Deptford dockyard -- Living in Deptford -- To Greenwich -- River and identity -- 2 OPPORTUNITIES AND PRESSURES OF A WORLD CITY -- Civil disturbance -- Rivalries to the south -- Politics in Surrey and Kent -- An inquiring spirit -- Officials and regulation -- 3 WAR WITH AMERICA -- War and poor families -- Divided opinions -- Dockyard reforms -- Manning the navy -- A war of survival -- Portraying dockyard work -- War's aftermath -- 4 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT -- Rising crime rate -- Fighting crime -- Highway robbery -- Convict hulks -- Securing a conviction -- 5 SPIRITED WOMEN -- Seamen's wives -- Elizabeth Cook -- The labouring poor -- Women in business -- Cross-dressing women -- Respectability and reputation -- Defending absent husbands -- Widows and charity -- 6 MONEY AND PLEASURE -- Ship launches -- Theatres -- Shopping and other diversions -- Charitable giving -- River pleasures and dangers -- 7 WAR WITH FRANCE -- Preparations for war -- Waving the flag -- Militia and volunteers -- Crisis and mutiny -- Labour issues -- The fortunes of war -- 8 GRAND DESIGNS -- Approval for the dockyards -- Funding the marine police -- Building the docks -- London and the slave trade -- Rebellion thwarted -- The effect of the docks -- CONCLUSION London Against Napoleon -- War and society -- The longer-term impact of war -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lincoln, Margarette Trading in war New Haven : Yale University Press,c2018 ISBN 978-0-300-22748-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
London
;
Hafen
;
Seeschifffahrt
;
Seehandel
;
Marine
;
Nordamerikanischer Unabhängigkeitskrieg
;
Napoleonische Kriege
;
Geschichte 1760-1802
DOI:
10.12987/9780300235388
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