Those Emblems of Hell  -  Royen, Paul C, van

European Sailors and the Maritime Labour Market, 1570-1870

KORTE INHOUD

This journal examines privateering and naval prizes in Atlantic Canada in the maritime War of 1812 - considered the final major international manifestation of the practice. It seeks to contextualise the role of privateering in the nineteenth century; determine the causes of, and reactions to, the War of 1812; determine the legal evolution of prize law in North America; discuss the privateers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the methods they utilised to manipulate the rules of prize making during the wa...
1997 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1997 Uitgever: International Maritime Economic History Association 362 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0968128815 ISBN-13: 9780968128817