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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2021]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1zvccsp |
Table of Contents:
- A plundering people
- Renegades and reprisals
- Risks and rewards
- Piracy and empire
- Sailors and the Company-State
- Englishness abroad
- Sailors and the state.