The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
(Part of the Early American Histories Series)
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A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat--it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:081393351X
ISBN13:9780813933511
Release Date:March 2013
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:376 Pages
Weight:1.52 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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