1908205
9780521379830
This unsparing account of the eighteenth-century maritime world reconstructs the often brutal social and cultural milieu of Anglo-American seafaring and piracy, following sailors and their ships from their trade routes into rowdy waterfront ports.Rediker, Marcus is the author of 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750', published 1989 under ISBN 9780521379830 and ISBN 0521379830.
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