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Trading in war : London's maritime world in the age of Cook and Nelson

Lincoln, Margarette, author

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\"A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars. In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain's military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers, traders, and the network of ordinary citizens that served them. Harnessing little-known archival and archaeological sources, Lincoln recovers a forgotten maritime world. Her gripping narrative highlights the pervasive impact of war, which brought violence, smuggling, pilfering from ships on the river, and a susceptibility to subversive political ideas. It also commemorates the working maritime community: shipwrights and those who built London's first docks, wives who coped while husbands were at sea, and early trade unions. This meticulously researched work reveals the lives of ordinary Londoners behind the unstoppable rise of Britain's sea power and its eventual defeat of Napoleon.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: Merchant marine Great Britain History 18th century. / London (England) History 18th century. / London (England) Social life and customs 18th century. / Great Britain Commerce History 18th century.
• ISBN: 9780300227482, 0300227485

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DA682.L56 2018	1	BOOK	BUSINESS