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Brunsman, Denver Alexander, 1975-

The evil necessity British naval impressment in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / [electronic resource] : Denver Brunsman. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - xi, 364 p. : ill. - Early American histories .

Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Empire -- Imperial Design -- Ruling the Waves -- Cultures of Impressment -- Part II. Sailors -- Men of War -- Everyday Escapes -- Atlantic Impressment Riots -- Epilogue.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Corporate Names:
Great Britain. Royal Navy --History--18th century.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Impressment--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Impressment--History--United States--18th century.
Sailors--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Sailors--History--United States--18th century.
Imperialism--History--18th century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--History, Naval--18th century.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DA77 / .B78 2013eb

Dewey Class. No.: 359.00941/09033