Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750 (Canto original series) - Marcus Rediker
KORTE INHOUD
Seamen, captains and pirates occupy a special place in our popular culture, yet until now the historical record of their lives has been remarkably neglected. This brilliant account of the maritime world of the eighteenth-century reconstructs in detail the social and cultural milieu of Anglo-American seafaring and piracy. Rediker follows sailors and their ships along the pulsing trade routes, into ports with their crowded waterfront society of brothels, alehouses, brawls and jails, and paints a compelling picture of their world at sea with its brutal labour, harsh discipline, hangings and floggings. The book's focus on maritime experience illuminates the broader historical sweep of the rise of capitalism and the growth of an international working class - epic themes which were intimately bound up with everyday lives of seafaring men.
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1993 Uitgever: Cambridge University Press 340 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0521457203 ISBN-13: 9780521457200Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge University Press. Paperback, 322 pp., index, 13x21x2 cm, with pencil underlining and notes throughout, in good condition. [Auteur: Rediker, Marcus] [Uitgever: Reprint via Canto 1993] [Titel: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant seamen, pirates, and the Anglo-American maritime world 1700-1750]
