Evil Necessity - British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Informationen zum Autor Denver Brunsman, Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University, is an editor of both Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development and Revolutionary Detroit: Portraits in Political and Cultural Change, 1760-1805. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies

Product details

• Authors: Denver Brunsman, Denver Alexander Brunsman
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2013
• EAN: 9780813933511
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-3351-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Early American Histories; Early American Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Militärgeschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, HISTORY / Military / Naval, History - Military / War