Author: Reginald Godfrey MarsdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Documents Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea: A.D. 1649-1767
Author: Reginald Godfrey MarsdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Documents Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea
Author: Reginald Godfrey MarsdenPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 188636396X
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
A fascinating document and a landmark in the development of the common law. The only English translation of the first book of its kind, enhanced by Professor Seipp's detailed Table of Contents demonstrating the exhaustive scope of the work, followed by his new introductory essay.
Documents Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea
Author: Reginald Godfrey MarsdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Documents Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea (vol. 2).
Author: Reginald Godfrey MarsdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Publications of the Navy Records Society
Author: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Documents Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea
Author: Catalogue of the War Office Library
Author: Great Britain. War Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: The Punishment of Pirates
Author: Matthew NortonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226823113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
"Sociologist Matthew Norton's The Punishment of Pirates takes us on an exciting journey through the shifting legal status of pirates in the eighteenth century. Initially, piracy was a fertile ground for many enterprising and lawless young men to make fortunes on the high seas, due in no small part to the lack of policing by the British crown. But as the British empire moved away from a collection of far-flung territories toward a consolidated economic and political enterprise dependent on long distance trade, pirates suddenly became a tremendous threat. Norton shows us that eliminating this threat required an institutional shift toward first identifying and defining piracy, and then toward brutally policing it. The Punishment of Pirates develops a new framework for understanding the cultural mechanisms involved in dividing, classifying, and constructing institutional order by tracing the transformation of piracy from a situation of cultivated ambiguity to a criminal category with violently patrolled boundaries-ending with its eradication as a systemic threat to trade in the English empire. Replete with gun battles, executions, jail breaks, and courtroom dramas, Norton's book will offer insights for social theorists, political scientists, and historians alike"--