Englishmen at sea : labor and the nation at the dawn of empire, 1570-1630 /

"Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a reputation for ruthle...

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Hlavní autor: Hubbard, Eleanor (Eleanor Kathryn) (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New Haven : Yale University Press [2021]
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1zvccsp
Obsah:
  • A plundering people
  • Renegades and reprisals
  • Risks and rewards
  • Piracy and empire
  • Sailors and the Company-State
  • Englishness abroad
  • Sailors and the state.