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The Rise of an Early Modern Shipping Industry : Whitby's Golden Fleet, 1600-1750 /
The ancient but isolated town of Whitby has made a huge contribution to the maritime history of Britain: Captain Cook learned sailing and navigation here; during the eighteenth century the town was a provider of an exceptionally large number of transport ships in wartime; and in the nineteenth centu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer,
2011.
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| Colección: | Regions and regionalism in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; Part 1: 1600-1689; Introduction: A Small Port in Yorkshire; 1 Foundations; 2 The Early Seventeenth Century; 3 Upheaval; 4 Stabilisation and Confidence; 5 Overview of the Seventeenth Century; Part 2: 1690-1750; 6 The Established Port; 7 'They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships'; Conclusion; APPENDIX 1: The Size of the Fleet; APPENDIX 2: Pressgang Instructions; APPENDIX 3: The Naming of Ships; APPENDIX 4: The Burnett Papers; GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS.
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READINGINDEX; Backcover.