The press gang : naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain /
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 a...
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Impressment and the law
- Resisting the press gang : trends, patterns, dynamics
- Spotlight on two ports : Bristol and Liverpool
- Manning the navy in the mid-century Atlantic
- The navy and the nation, 1793-1820
- Epilogue.