Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750
Marcus Rediker
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Description for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750
Hardback. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea focuses upon the seamen's experience in order to illuminate larger historical issues. Num Pages: 340 pages, 17 b/w illus. 1 map 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; HBTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea focuses upon the seamen's experience in order to illuminate larger historical issues such as the rise of capitalism, the genesis of free wage labor, and the growth of an international working class. These epic themes were intimately bound up with the everyday hopes and fears of the common men who toiled upon the deep.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea focuses upon the seamen's experience in order to illuminate larger historical issues such as the rise of capitalism, the genesis of free wage labor, and the growth of an international working class. These epic themes were intimately bound up with the everyday hopes and fears of the common men who toiled upon the deep.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521303422
SKU
V9780521303422
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
Reviews for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750
'In this important book, Marcus Rediker imbeds rich empirical research within an impressive theoretical framework. The result is a fresh and powerful analysis of the eighteenth-century maritime world that will quickly establish the author as a leading scholar in Anglo-American labor history.' Gary Nash, University of California, Los Angeles 'Marcus Rediker's in-depth study of seamen in the early eighteenth century ... Read more