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Trading in War - London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson (Hardcover)
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Trading in War - London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson (Hardcover)
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A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who
sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century
before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the
commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain's
military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The
unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a
crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers,
traders, and the network of ordinary citizens that served them.
Harnessing little-known archival and archaeological sources,
Lincoln recovers a forgotten maritime world. Her gripping narrative
highlights the pervasive impact of war, which brought violence,
smuggling, pilfering from ships on the river, and a susceptibility
to subversive political ideas. It also commemorates the working
maritime community: shipwrights and those who built London's first
docks, wives who coped while husbands were at sea, and early trade
unions. This meticulously researched work reveals the lives of
ordinary Londoners behind the unstoppable rise of Britain's sea
power and its eventual defeat of Napoleon.
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