The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and Its Opponents in Georgian Britain
Author:   Nicholas Rogers
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781847144683


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   04 September 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Nicholas Rogers
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum Collections, an imprint of Continuum International Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781847144683


ISBN 10:   1847144683
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   04 September 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Introduction; Impressment and the Law; Resisting the Press gang: Trends, Patterns, Dynamics; Spotlight on Two Ports: Bristol and Liverpool; Manning the Navy in the Mid-century Atlantic; The Navy and the Nation, 1793-1820; Epilogue.

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'This is a colourful study ... Rogers [...] is careful to present a balanced picture, using statistics and anecdotal evidence to good effect.' Margarette Lincoln, Times Literary Supplement, March 2009


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Nicholas Rogers is a leading expert on the social history of eighteenth-century Britain. He is professor of History at York University, Toronto. His many books include Whigs and Cities: Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt and Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain.

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