Format:
1 online resource (535 pages)
ISBN:
9780300252613
Content:
A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare
Note:
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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- PART ONE RISING -- 1 ORDEAL WITH ANSON 1740-44 -- 2 A LINCOLNSHIRE LAD 1755-59 -- 3 MAN AND BOY 1756-59 -- 4 HEART OF OAK 1759-61 -- 5 TO THE EASTERN SEAS 1760-70 -- 6 FARTHER STILL AND FARTHER 1768-88 -- 7 HANDS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 1775-83 -- 8 BLACK GOLD 1750-90 -- 9 COMING HOME 1771-83 -- 10 FRUITS OF PEACE 1783-92 -- 11 'A TERROR TO SEAMEN' 1788-92 -- INTERLUDE: THE DEEP -- PART TWO ATOP -- 12 'THESE VALUABLE BUT HELPLESS PEOPLE' 1792-97 -- 13 FAMILY AND FRIENDS 1793-98 -- 14 A RISING TIDE 1794-97 -- 15 REVOLUTION AT SPITHEAD 1797 -- 16 'THE MACHINATIONS OF EVIL INCENDIARIES' 1797 -- 17 HELLFIRE AND REDEMPTION 1797-1801 -- 18 TOM BOWLING 1801-03 -- 19 APOTHEOSIS 1805 -- 20 WINNING WAYS 1806-09 -- 21 OLD FRIENDS, OLD FOES 1803-14 -- 22 PASSAGES TO WATERLOO 1809-15 -- 23 OVER THE SIDE 1816-36 -- 24 STORYTELLERS 1810-40 -- 25 SAFE MOOR'D 1820-40 -- 26 PAX BRITANNICA 1819-40 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Taylor, Stephen Sons of the Waves New Haven : Yale University Press,c2020 ISBN 9780300245714
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Seemann
;
Alltag
;
Sozialgeschichte 1740-1840
