TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Sons of the waves : the common seaman in the heroic age of sail, 1740-1840
A1  - Taylor, Stephen, 1948- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5507842
AB  - British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797 mutinies, these "sons of the waves" held the nation's destiny in their calloused hands.
SN  - 9780300245714 kovakantinen
KW  - 1700-1899
KW  - Sailors : Great Britain : History : 18th century.
KW  - Sailors : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - Sailors.
KW  - Great Britain : History, Naval.
KW  - Great Britain.
ER  -