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Enter the Press-gang

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Author : Daniel James Ennis
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137552
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Enter the Press-gang written by Daniel James Ennis and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even as press-gangs roamed the London streets, eighteenth-century writers applauded, critiqued, and condemned the practice Pepys called "a great tyranny" - the means of naval recruitment by which Britain simultaneously manned her fleets and oppressed her citizens." "This book centers on literature produced in "moments of crisis" - times when Britain faced a military challenge and thus needed her Navy most. When the French gained the upper hand early in the Seven Years' War, David Garrick was moved to write "To honour we call you, not press you like slaves, / For who are so free as we sons of the waves?" This characterization of the press as benign was common in the theater, even as sailors brawled with press-gangs on London Bridge. At the same time, novelists bitterly attacked impressment policy, showing how the press weighs most heavily on the poor."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Myth of the Press Gang

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Author : J. Ross Dancy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783270039
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Press Gang written by J. Ross Dancy and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century.

Billy Waters Is Dancing

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Author : Mary L Shannon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300267681
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Billy Waters Is Dancing written by Mary L Shannon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his huge celebrity took on a life of its own Every child in Regency London knew Billy Waters, the celebrated "King of the Beggars." Likely born into enslavement in 1770s New York, he became a Royal Navy sailor. After losing his leg in a fall from the rigging, the talented and irrepressible Waters became London's most famous street performer. His extravagantly costumed image blazed across the stage and in print to an unprecedented degree. For all his contemporary renown, Waters died destitute in 1823--but his legend would live on for decades. Mary L. Shannon's biography draws together surviving traces of Waters' life to bring us closer to the historical figure underlying them. Considering Waters' influence on the London stage and his echoing resonances in visual art, and writing by Douglass, Dickens, and Thackeray, Shannon asks us to reconsider Black presences in nineteenth-century popular culture. This is a vital attempt to recover a life from historical obscurity--and a fascinating account of what it meant to find fame in the Regency metropolis.

Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812

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Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025087
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812 written by Paul A. Gilje and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the slogan 'free trade and sailors rights', tracing its sources to eighteenth-century thought and Americans' experience with impressment into the British navy.

The Evil Necessity

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Author : Denver Alexander Brunsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081393351X
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Evil Necessity written by Denver Alexander Brunsman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships' logs, merchants' papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Press Gang

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Author : Nicholas Rogers
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826423736
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Press Gang written by Nicholas Rogers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for depriving men of their liberty and carrying them away to a harsh life at sea, sometimes for years at a time. Nicholas Rogers explains exactly how the press gang worked, whom it was aimed at and how successful it was in achieving its ends. He also shows the limits to its operations and the press gang's need for cooperation from local authorities, who were by no means prepared to support it. Written by an expert in the social history of eighteenth-century Britain, it is both well-researched and highly readable.

Twilight Histories

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Author : Camilla Cassidy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004526536
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Twilight Histories written by Camilla Cassidy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight Histories explores how Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy mingled nostalgia with historical fiction. Nostalgia was homesickness before it was a kind of memory, making it a fitting image for the displacements in time and place brought by Victorian modernity.

Press Gang

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Author : Roy Greenslade
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330393768
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Press Gang written by Roy Greenslade and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the changing face of British newspapers, Roy Greenslade shows how the way we live has been shaped by what we read. While analysing such dominant media figures as Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell the book also examines the trends, the biases and the impact of the press as we know it today.

Talking Revolution

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Author : Franca Dellarosa
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781387486
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Talking Revolution written by Franca Dellarosa and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study sheds light on a major and until now little studied Liverpool writer, Edward Rushton (1782-1814), whose politics and poetics were imbued in the most pressing events and debates shaking the world during the Age of Revolution.

Naval Families, War and Duty in Britain, 1740-1820

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Author : Ellen Gill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271094
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Naval Families, War and Duty in Britain, 1740-1820 written by Ellen Gill and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides deep insights into the roles and responsibilities of men, women and children within naval families.

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama

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Author : Wendy C. Nielsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611494303
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Women Warriors in Romantic Drama written by Wendy C. Nielsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Warriors in Romantic Drama advances scholarship on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century theater by bringing together, for the first time, female and male dramatists as well as British, German, Irish, and French writers, thinkers, actors, and philosophers. This transnational perspective allows Women Warriors in Romantic Drama to make the provocative claim that in some instances, the violence of the French Revolution--and especially women's participation in it--advances proto-feminist concerns.

The Press Gang

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Author : Godfrey Cheshire
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1609809777
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Press Gang written by Godfrey Cheshire and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dialogue about cinema's legacy and best directors through essays by three of the best long-form critics out there, collected from the legendary NYPress for the first time. Comprising of the kind of long-form criticism that is all too rare these days, the weekly film columns in the NYPress included polemics, reviews, interviews, festival reports and features. A far cry from what is often derisively termed the "consumer report" mode of criticism, Cheshire, Seitz and White were passionately engaged with the film culture of both their own time, and what had come before. They constituted three distinctly different voices: equally accomplished, yet notably individual, perspectives on cinema. Their distinctive tastes and approaches were often positioned in direct dialogue with each other, a constant critical conversation that frequently saw each writer directly challenging his colleagues. Dialogue is important in criticism, and here you can find a healthy example of it existing under one proverbial roof. This three-way dialogue between Cheshire, Seitz and White assesses the 1990s in cinema, along with pieces on New York's vibrant repertory scene that allow us to read the authors' takes on directors such as Hitchcock, Lean, Kubrick, Welles, Fassbinder and Bresson; as well as topics such as the legacy of Star Wars, film noir, early film projection in New York City, the New York Film Critics Circle, Sundance, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the emerging cinema of Iran and Taiwan.

The Press Gang Or, War Proclaimed by the Prince of Peace, Against the Prince of Darkness

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Author : George Charles Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Press Gang Or, War Proclaimed by the Prince of Peace, Against the Prince of Darkness written by George Charles Smith and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

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Author : J. R. Hutchinson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368357468
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore written by J. R. Hutchinson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Punch

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Punch, Or, The London Charivari

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Punch

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Author : Mark Lemon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: