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Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea (Hardcover)
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Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea (Hardcover)
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Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history
examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long
early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the
economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the
beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the reign of
George II. England's coastlines were heavily trafficked by naval
and commercial shipping, but an unfortunate percentage was cast
away or lost. Shipwrecks were disasters for merchants and mariners,
but opportunities for shore dwellers. As the proverb said, it was
an ill wind that blew nobody any good. Lords of manors, local
officials, officers of the Admiralty, and coastal commoners
competed for maritime cargoes and the windfall of wreckage, which
they regarded as providential godsends or entitlements by right. A
varied haul of commodities, wines, furnishings, and bullion came
ashore, much of it claimed by the crown. The people engaged in
salvaging these wrecks came to be called 'wreckers', and gained a
reputation as violent and barbarous plunderers. Close attention to
statements of witnesses and reports of survivors shows this image
to be largely undeserved. Dramatic evidence from previously
unexplored manuscript sources reveals coastal communities in
action, collaborating as well as competing, as they harvested the
bounty of the sea.
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