Law, Labour, and Empire - Comparative Perspectives on Seafarers, c. 1500-1800 (Hardcover)

Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technological and scientific development, and cultural and material exchanges around the world. This volume adopts a comparative perspective, presenting current research about maritime labourers across three centuries, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, to understand how seafarers contributed to legal and economic transformation within Europe and across the world. Focusing on the three related themes of legal systems, labouring conditions, and imperial power, these essays explore the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between seafarers' individual and collective agency, and the social and economic frameworks which structured their lives.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Maria Fusaro
Editors:	B. Allaire • R. Blakemore • T. Vanneste • Michael Dunford
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	357
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-44745-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Transport industries > Shipping industries > Maritime / nautical trades Books > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Promotions
LSN:	1-137-44745-1
Barcode:	9781137447456

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