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Author:   Cheryl Cheryl Fury (Customer) ,  B.R. Burg (Contributor) ,  Bernard Capp ,  Cheryl Cheryl Fury (Customer)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   The Boydell Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781843839538

ISBN 10:   1843839539
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   19 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Cheryl A. Fury The Development of Sea Power, 1649-1815 - Cheryl A. Fury and Jeremy Black Naval Seamen, 1650-1700 - Bernard Capp Officers and Men of the Navy, 1660-1815 - N.A. M. Rodger The Impact of Warfare on Naval Wives and Women - Margarette Lincoln Officers, Shipboard Boys and Courts Martial for Sodomy and Indecency in the Georgian Navy - B.R. Burg Health Provision in the Royal Navy, 1650-1815 - David McLean The Origins and Careers of English Merchant Seamen in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries - Peter Earle Private Enterprise, Public Policy and the Development of Britain's Seafaring Workforce, 1650-1815 - David J Starkey Jack Tar's Food: Masculine Self-fashioning in the Age of Sail - J.D. Alsop Pirates, Privateers and Buccaneers: the Changing Face of English Piracy from the 1650s to the 1720s - John C. Appleby Conclusion - Cheryl A. Fury Bibliography

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A truly illuminating and satisfying work on the experience of Jack Tar over the centuries. JULIAN STOCKWIN

A survey of a wide range of new research on many aspects of life at sea in the early modern period.A truly illumi

Author Information

JOHN C. APPLEBY is a Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University. He is the author of Women and English Piracy, (Boydell, 2013).

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