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The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

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The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World - Brunsman, Denver
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Drawing on ships' logs, merchants' papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies

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The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 2013, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813933511

Hardcover