Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750

Name: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750
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ISBN: 9780521379830

ISBN-10: 0521379830

ISBN-13: 9780521379830

Edition: 1989

Authors: Marcus Rediker

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The common seaman and the pirate in the age of sail are romantic historical figures who occupy a special place in the popular culture of the modern age. And yet in many ways, these daring men remain little known to us. Like most other poor working people of the past, they left few first-hand accounts of their lives. But their lives are not beyond recovery. In this book, Marcus Rediker uses a huge array of historical sources (court records, diaries, travel accounts, and many others) to reconstruct the social cultural world of the Anglo-American seamen and pirates who sailed the seas in the first half of the eighteenth century. Rediker tours the sailor's North Atlantic, following seamen and…

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/24/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



The seaman as man of the world: a tour of the North Atlantic, c. 1740



The seaman as collective worker: the labor process at sea



The seaman as wage laborer: the search for ready money



The seaman as plain dealer: language and culture at sea



The seaman as the 'spirit of rebellion': authority, violence, and labor discipline



The seaman as pirate: plunder and social banditry at sea


Conclusion: the seaman as worker of the world


Appendices


Index