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The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told
through the lives of those who experienced it "Lively and
arresting. . . . [Lincoln] is as confident in handling the royal
ceremonials of political transition . . . as she is with London's
thriving coffee-house culture, and its turbulent maritime
community."-Ian W. Archer, Times Literary Supplement "Lincoln has a
curator's gift for selecting all the right details for a thoroughly
absorbing account."-Tony Barber, Financial Times, "Best Books of
2021: History" The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I's
execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then
the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the
most momentous times in the history of Britain, and Londoners took
center stage. In this fascinating account, Margarette Lincoln
charts the impact of national events on an ever-growing citizenry
with its love of pageantry, spectacle, and enterprise. Lincoln
looks at how religious, political, and financial tensions were
fomented by commercial ambition, expansion, and hardship. In
addition to events at court and parliament, she evokes the
remarkable figures of the period, including Shakespeare, Bacon,
Pepys, and Newton, and draws on diaries, letters, and wills to
trace the untold stories of ordinary Londoners. Through their eyes,
we see how the nation emerged from a turbulent century poised to
become a great maritime power with London at its heart-the greatest
city of its time.
The first multi-disciplinary history of the English East India
Company, one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have
existed. Throws light on significant aspects of the Company's
history. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY The English East
India Company was one of the most powerful commercial companies
ever to have existed. It laid thefoundations of the British Empire
in South Asia and thus lies at the very heart of the interlinked
histories of Britain and Asia. This first multi-disciplinary
history of the Company to be published commemorates the
four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of this unique and
extraordinary institution. Historians of art, culture, cartography,
empire, politics, the sea, and trade, explore the origins,
operation, and influence of the Company as an organisation that
remained firmly engaged in maritime commercial activity in many
different spheres, even as it acted as a powerful agent of
territorial expansion on the Indian subcontinent. H.V. BOWEN is
senior lecturer ineconomic and social history at the University of
Leicester; NIGEL RIGBY and MARGARETTE LINCOLN work in the research
department of the National Maritime Museum, London.
A survey of a wide range of new research on many aspects of life at
sea in the early modern period. Maritime social history is a
relatively young and fertile field, with many new research findings
being discovered on a wide range of aspects of the subject. This
book, together with its companion volume The Social History of
English Seamen, 1485-1649 (The Boydell Press, 2011), pulls together
and makes accessible this large body of research work. Subjects
covered include life at sea in different parts of the period for
both officers and seamen, in both the navy and in merchant ships;
piracy and privateering; health, health care and disability;
seamen's food; homosexuality afloat; and the role of women at sea
and on land. Written by leading experts in their field, the
volumesoffer a nuanced portrait of seafarers' existence as well as
an overview of the current state of the historiography. CHERYL A.
FURY is Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick
(Saint John campus) and a Fellow of the Gregg Centre for War and
Society. Contributors: J.D. ALSOP, JOHN APPLEBY, JEREMY BLACK, B.
R. BURG, BERNARD CAPP, PETER EARLE, CHERYL A. FURY, MARGARETTE
LINCOLN, DAVID MCLEAN, N. A. M. RODGER, DAVID STARKEY
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.
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the
Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David
Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New
World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how
pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled
piracy, and when and why piracy declined. The essays presented take
the study of piracy, which can easily lapse into rousing,
romanticized stories, to new heights of rigor and insight. The
Golden Age of Piracy also delves into the enduring status of
pirates as pop culture icons. Audiences have devoured stories about
cutthroats such as Blackbeard and Henry Morgan from the time that
pirates sailed the sea. By looking at the ideas of gender and
sexuality surrounding pirate stories, the fad for hunting pirate
treasure, and the construction of pirate myths, the book's
contributors tell a new story about the dangerous men, and a few
dangerous women, who terrorized the high seas.
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the
Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David
Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New
World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how
pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled
piracy, and when and why piracy declined. The essays presented take
the study of piracy, which can easily lapse into rousing,
romanticized stories, to new heights of rigor and insight. The
Golden Age of Piracy also delves into the enduring status of
pirates as pop culture icons. Audiences have devoured stories about
cutthroats such as Blackbeard and Henry Morgan from the time that
pirates sailed the sea. By looking at the ideas of gender and
sexuality surrounding pirate stories, the fad for hunting pirate
treasure, and the construction of pirate myths, the book's
contributors tell a new story about the dangerous men, and a few
dangerous women, who terrorized the high seas.
This book, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the
National Maritime Museum to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great
Fire of London, centres on Samuel Pepys (1633 1703), the famous
diarist and the greatest administrator of the Stuart Age. Not only
a passionate diarist, Pepys was also a prolific correspondent who
lived through and wrote about all the key events and leading
individuals of his time: the Restoration of Charles II, the Great
Plague, the Fire of London, the raid of the Dutch fleet in the
river Medway, the King's mistresses. Through a series of essays by
leading experts, this publication reveals the rich diversity of his
career and interests - from the theatre, to advances in science and
development of the Royal Navy. His life was so utterly entwined
with the extraordinary period he lived through - he was even a
witness to the beheading of Charles I - that the book becomes a
portrait of the age. Each chapter has two or three essays followed
by discussion of specific objects and paintings.
This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in
trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons,
ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards
them changed with Britain's growing imperial power, exploring the
interface between political ambition and personal greed, between
civil liberties and the power of the state. It throws light on
contemporary ideals of leadership and masculinity - some pirate
voyages qualifying as feats of seamanship and endurance. Unusually,
it also gives insights into the domestic life of pirates and
investigates the experiences of women whose husbands turned pirate
or were captured for piracy. Pirate voyages contributed to British
understanding of trans-oceanic navigation, patterns of trade and
different peoples in remote parts of the world. This knowledge
advanced imperial expansion and British control of trade routes,
which helps to explain why contemporary attitudes towards piracy
were often ambivalent. This is an engaging study of vested
interests and conflicting ideologies. It offers comparisons with
our experience of piracy today and shows how the historic
representation of pirate behaviour can illuminate other modern
preoccupations, including gang culture.
"Naval Wives & Mistresses" is an innovative study of naval
women who stayed at home while their men went to sea. Focusing on
the second half of the 18th century, a period when Britain was
almost continuously at war, this book looks at different social
groups, from the aristocratic elite to the laboring and criminal
poor, prostitutes, and petty thieves. Drawing on a range of
material from personal letters to trial reports, from popular
prints to love tokens, it exposes the personal cost of warfare and
imperial ambition. It also reveals the opportunities for greater
self-determination that some women were able to grasp, as the
responsibility for maintaining the home and bringing up children
fell squarely on them in their husbands' absence. Illustrated with
images from the National Maritime Museum's extensive collection of
oil paintings, prints, and drawings, the book includes many voices
from the past and throws fresh light on an under-researched aspect
of women's history.
From the mid 18th century up till after memories of the Napoleonic
wars and the glories of 'Nelson's navy' had faded, the Royal Navy
was the bulwark of Britain's defence and the safeguard of trade and
imperial expansion. While there have been political and military
histories of the Navy in this period, looking at battles and
personalities, and studies of its administration and the life below
decks, this book is the first study of the Navy in a cultural
context, exploring contemporary attitudes to war and peace and to
ideologies of race and gender. As well as literary sources, Dr
Lincoln draws on the vast collections of the National Maritime
Museum, in paintings, cartoons, and ceramics, amongst others, to
focus attention on material that has hitherto been little used -
even research into the general culture of the late-Georgian age
has, curiously, neglected perceptions of the Navy, which was one of
its major institutions. Individual chapters discuss the attitudes
of particular groups towards the Navy - merchants, politicians,
churchmen, women, scientists, and the seamen themselves - and how
these attitudes changed over the course of the period.
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