Author: John Robert HutchinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Press-gang Afloat and Ashore
Author: John Robert HutchinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Enter the Press-gang
Author: Daniel James EnnisPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Even as press-gangs roamed the London streets, eighteenth-century writers applauded, critiqued, and condemned the practice Pepys called "a great tyranny" - the means of naval recruitment by which Britain simultaneously manned her fleets and oppressed her citizens." "This book centers on literature produced in "moments of crisis" - times when Britain faced a military challenge and thus needed her Navy most. When the French gained the upper hand early in the Seven Years' War, David Garrick was moved to write "To honour we call you, not press you like slaves, / For who are so free as we sons of the waves?" This characterization of the press as benign was common in the theater, even as sailors brawled with press-gangs on London Bridge. At the same time, novelists bitterly attacked impressment policy, showing how the press weighs most heavily on the poor."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: The Press Gang
Author: Nicholas RogersPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826423736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for depriving men of their liberty and carrying them away to a harsh life at sea, sometimes for years at a time. Nicholas Rogers explains exactly how the press gang worked, whom it was aimed at and how successful it was in achieving its ends. He also shows the limits to its operations and the press gang's need for cooperation from local authorities, who were by no means prepared to support it. Written by an expert in the social history of eighteenth-century Britain, it is both well-researched and highly readable.
Select Naval Documents
Author: Harold Winter HodgesPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Crowds, Culture, and Politics in Georgian Britain
Author: Nicholas RogersPublisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198201724
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Here, Professor Rogers looks at the role and character of crowds in Georgian politics and examines why the topsy-turvy interventions of the Jacobite era gave way to the more disciplined parades of Hanoverian England.
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