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The Evil Necessity

- British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

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Drawing on ships' logs, merchants' papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812.Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780813933511
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 376
  • Udgivet:
  • 30. marts 2013
  • Størrelse:
  • 166x242x29 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 662 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..

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Drawing on ships' logs, merchants' papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812.Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies

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