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Trading in war : London's maritime world in the age of Cook and Nelson / Margarette Lincoln.

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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 a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Lincoln, Margarette (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Great Britain > History, Naval > 17th century.
Navy-yards and naval stations Dalston (London, England) > History > 17th century.
London (England) > Economic conditions > 17th century.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Economic history.
Manners and customs.
Navy-yards and naval stations.
England > London.
Great Britain.
History.
Naval history.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; PLATES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON CONVENTIONS; Map; Images; INTRODUCTION Forgotten Histories; 1 LONDON'S RIVERSIDE; Churches; Civic buildings; Wapping residents; Crossing the river; Deptford dockyard; Living in Deptford; To Greenwich; River and identity; 2 OPPORTUNITIES AND PRESSURES OF A WORLD CITY; Civil disturbance; Rivalries to the south; Politics in Surrey and Kent; An inquiring spirit; Officials and regulation; 3 WAR WITH AMERICA; War and poor families; Divided opinions; Dockyard reforms; Manning the navy.
  • A war of survivalPortraying dockyard work; War's aftermath; 4 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; Rising crime rate; Fighting crime; Highway robbery; Convict hulks; Securing a conviction; 5 SPIRITED WOMEN; Seamen's wives; Elizabeth Cook; The labouring poor; Women in business; Cross-dressing women; Respectability and reputation; Defending absent husbands; Widows and charity; 6 MONEY AND PLEASURE; Ship launches; Theatres; Shopping and other diversions; Charitable giving; River pleasures and dangers; 7 WAR WITH FRANCE; Preparations for war; Waving the flag; Militia and volunteers; Crisis and mutiny.
  • Labour issuesThe fortunes of war; 8 GRAND DESIGNS; Approval for the dockyards; Funding the marine police; Building the docks; London and the slave trade; Rebellion thwarted; The effect of the docks; CONCLUSION London Against Napoleon; War and society; The longer-term impact of war; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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