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Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of Elizabethan Seamen, 1580-1603
ISBN: 9780313319488 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The age of maritime expansion and the Anglo-Spanish War have been analyzed by generations of historians, but nearly all studies have emphasized events and participants at the top. This book examines the lives and experiences of the men of the Elizabethan maritime community during a particularly volatile period of maritime history. The seafaring community had to contend with simultaneous pressures from many different directions. Shipowners and merchants, motivated by profit, hired seamen to sail voyages of ever-increasing distances, which taxed the health and capabilities of 16th-century... The age of maritime expansion and the Anglo-Spanish War have been analyzed by generations of historians, but nearly all studies have emphasized eve... |
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559,14 zł |
The Social History of English Seamen, 1650-1815
ISBN: 9781843839538 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Maritime social history is a relatively young and fertile field, with many new research findings being discovered on a wide range of aspects of the subject. This book, together with its companion volume The Social History of English Seamen, 1485-1649 (The Boydell Press, 2011), pulls together and makes accessible this large body of research work. Subjects covered include life at sea in different parts of the period for both officers and seamen, in both the navy and in merchant ships; piracy and privateering; health, health care and disability; seamen's food; homosexuality afloat; and the role...
Maritime social history is a relatively young and fertile field, with many new research findings being discovered on a wide range of aspects of the su...
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412,57 zł |
The Social History of English Seamen, 1485-1649
ISBN: 9781843836896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Traditionally, the history of English maritime adventures has focused on the great sea captains and swashbucklers. However, over the past few decades, social historians have begun to examine the less well-known seafarers who were on the dangerous voyages of commerce, exploration, privateering and piracy, as well as naval campaigns. This book brings together some of their findings. There is no comparable work that provides such an overview of our knowledge of English seamen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the tumultuous world in which they lived. Subjects covered include...
Traditionally, the history of English maritime adventures has focused on the great sea captains and swashbucklers. However, over the past few decades,...
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489,92 zł |