Название: Englishmen at Sea: Labor and the Nation at the Dawn of Empire, 1570-1630
Автор: Eleanor Hubbard
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300246129
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 368
Размер: 3,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a reputation for ruthlessness. Peace in 1603 forced these predatory seamen to adapt to a radically changed world, one in which they were expected to risk their lives for merchants' gain, not plunder.