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Law, Labour, and Empire: Comparative Perspectives on Seafarers, c. 1500-1800
Maria Fusaro
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Description for Law, Labour, and Empire: Comparative Perspectives on Seafarers, c. 1500-1800
Hardcover. Law, Labour, and Empire provides a comparative analysis of the development and impact of maritime labour and law in the early modern period. Editor(s): Allaire, Bernard; Blakemore, Richard; Vanneste, Tijl; Dunford, Michael. Num Pages: 357 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBLH; HBTM; HBTQ; TRLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 572.
Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technological and scientific development, and cultural and material exchanges around the world. This volume adopts a comparative perspective, presenting current research about maritime labourers across three centuries, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, to understand how seafarers contributed to legal and economic transformation within Europe and across the world. Focusing on the three related themes of legal systems, labouring conditions, and imperial power, these essays explore the dynamic ... Read more
Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technological and scientific development, and cultural and material exchanges around the world. This volume adopts a comparative perspective, presenting current research about maritime labourers across three centuries, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, to understand how seafarers contributed to legal and economic transformation within Europe and across the world. Focusing on the three related themes of legal systems, labouring conditions, and imperial power, these essays explore the dynamic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
357
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137447456
SKU
V9781137447456
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Maria Fusaro
Richard W. Unger, University of British Columbia, Canada Andrea Addobbati, Università di Pisa, Italy Joan Abela, University of Malta, Malta Magnus Ressel, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany Jelle van Lottum, University of Birmingham, UK Catherine Sumnall Aske Brock, University of Kent, UK Tim Beattie, University of Exeter, UK Olivier Lopez, Aix-Marseille ... Read more
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