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364 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780813933511
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 19 March 2013
Description
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 laborer...
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364 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780813933511
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 19 March 2013
Description
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 laborer...