Enter The Press Gang

Author : Daniel James Ennis
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874137551

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Enter the Press-gang by Daniel James Ennis Pdf

"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

Author : Mary L Shannon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300267686

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Billy Waters Is Dancing by Mary L Shannon Pdf

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.

Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107025080

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Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812 by Paul A. Gilje Pdf

Examines the slogan 'free trade and sailors rights', tracing its sources to eighteenth-century thought and Americans' experience with impressment into the British navy.

Author : Denver Alexander Brunsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813933511

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The Evil Necessity by Denver Alexander Brunsman Pdf

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

Author : Jeremiah Ross Dancy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270033

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The Myth of the Press Gang by Jeremiah Ross Dancy Pdf

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. SHORTLISTED for the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal. The press gang is generally regarded as the means by which the British navy solved the problem of recruiting enough seamen in the late eighteenth century. This book, however, based on extensive original research conducted primarily in a large number of ships' muster books, demonstrates that this view is false. It argues that, in fact, the overwhelming majority of seamen in the navy were there of their own free will. Taking a long view across the late eighteenth century but concentrating on the period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793-1815, the book provides great detail on the sort of men that were recruited and the means by which they were recruited, and includes a number of individuals' stories. It shows how manpower was a major concern for the Admiralty; how the Admiralty put in place a range of recruitment methods including the quota system; how it worried about depleting merchant shipping of sufficient sailors; and how, although most seamen were volunteers, the press gang was resorted to, especially during the initial mobilisation at the beginning of wars and to find certain kinds of particularly skilled seamen. The book also makes comparisons with recruitment methods employed by the navies of other countries and by the British army. J. Ross Dancy is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University.

Author : Nicholas Rogers
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826423733

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The Press Gang by Nicholas Rogers Pdf

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.

Author : Camilla Cassidy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789004526532

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Twilight Histories by Camilla Cassidy Pdf

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.

Author : Franca Dellarosa
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781387481

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Talking Revolution by Franca Dellarosa Pdf

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.

Author : Ellen Gill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783271092

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Naval Families, War and Duty in Britain, 1740-1820 by Ellen Gill Pdf

Provides deep insights into the roles and responsibilities of men, women and children within naval families.

Author : Wendy C. Nielsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611494303

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Women Warriors in Romantic Drama by Wendy C. Nielsen Pdf

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.

Author : George Charles Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021861405

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The Press Gang Or, War Proclaimed by the Prince of Peace, Against the Prince of Darkness by George Charles Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10532095

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Punch by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : OXFORD:555098153

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Punch, Or, The London Charivari by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Lemon,Henry Mayhew,Tom Taylor,Shirley Brooks,Francis Cowley Burnand,Owen Seaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005479923

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Punch by Mark Lemon,Henry Mayhew,Tom Taylor,Shirley Brooks,Francis Cowley Burnand,Owen Seaman Pdf

Author : Sophia Kingshill,The Estate of Jennifer Westwood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409038450

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The Fabled Coast by Sophia Kingshill,The Estate of Jennifer Westwood Pdf

Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen’s prayers and sailors’ rituals – the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions. In The Fabled Coast, renowned folklorists Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood gather together the most enthralling tales and traditions, tracing their origins and examining the facts behind the legends. Was there ever such a beast as the monstrous Kraken? Did a Welsh prince discover America, centuries before Columbus? What happened to the missing crew of the Mary Celeste? Along the way, they recount the stories that are an integral part of our coastal heritage, such as the tale of Drake’s Drum, said to be heard when England was in peril, and the mythical island of Hy Brazil, which for centuries appeared on sea charts and maps to the west of Ireland. The result is an endlessly fascinating, often surprising journey through our island history.