The Evil Necessity : British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 9780813933528, 9780813933511

Naval Battles of the Second World War: The Atlantic and the Mediterranean 9781399098939, 1399098934

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theater of operations.

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The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain 9781472599971, 9781852855680, 9781847144683

The press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for de

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The Myth of the Press Gang: Volunteers, Impressment and the Naval Manpower Problem in the Late Eighteenth Century 1783272899, 9781783272891

The press gang is generally regarded as the means by which the British navy solved the problem of recruiting enough seam

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A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic 9780812245196, 0812245199

A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the

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The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era 9781442690271

Featuring contributions by authors from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, The Loyal Atlantic bri

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The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era [1 ed.] 9781442690271, 9781442611092

Featuring contributions by authors from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, The Loyal Atlantic bri

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A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic 9780812208313

A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the

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British Naval Aviation in World War II: The US Navy and Anglo-American Relations 9780755623549, 9781845113711

Throughout World War II, the United States played a pivotal role in the development of British maritime aviation. Even b

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British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole 9781400874637

This historical analysis of the problems faced by the British navy during the War of 1739-1748 also sheds light on the c

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Free Soil in the Atlantic World 9781317588726

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