Law, labour, and empire : comparative perspectives on seafarers, c. 1500-1800 /: comparative perspectives on seafarers, c. 1500-1800. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Law, labor, and empire
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Maria Fusaro, University of Exeter, UK, Bernard Allaire, University of Exeter, UK, Richard J. Blakemore, University of Oxford, UK, Tijl Vanneste, University of Exeter, UK.
• Editors: Fusaro, Maria; Allaire, Bernard, 1960-; Blakemore, Richard, 1987-; Vanneste, Tijl
• Contents: Introduction / Maria Fusaro, Bernard Allaire, Richard J. Blakemore, and Tijl Vanneste -- 1. Overview: Trades, Ports and Ships : The Roots of Difference in Sailors' Lives / Richard W. Unger -- PART I. SAILORS AND LAW -- 2. The Invasion of Northern Litigants : English and Dutch Seamen in Mediterranean Courts of Law / Maria Fusaro -- 3. Until the Very Last Nail : English Seafaring and Wage Litigation in Seventeenth-Century Livorno / Andrea Addobbati -- 4. Sailors' Legal Rights in a Mediterranean Hub : the Case of Malta / Joan Abela -- 5. Between Oléron and Colbert : The Evolution of French Maritime Law until the Seventeenth Century / Bernard Allaire -- 6. The Legal World of English Sailors, c. 1575-1729 / Richard J. Blakemore -- PART II. SAILORS AND LABOUR -- 7. Sailing through the Strait : Seamen's Professional Trajectories from a Segmented Labour Market in Holland to a Fragmented Mediterranean / Tijl Vanneste -- 8. The Hanseatics in Southern Europe : Structure and Payment of German Long-Distance Shipping, 1630-1700 / Magnus Ressel -- 9. Mobility, Migration and Human Capital in the Long Eighteenth Century : The Life of Joseph Anton Ponsaing / Jelle van Lottum, Catherine Sumnall, and Aske Brock -- 10. Dividing the Spoils : Research into the Paybook and Other Documents relating to the Privateering Voyage of the Duke and Dutchess, 1711 / Tim Beattie -- 11. Coral Fishermen in Barbary in the Eighteenth Century : Between Norms and Practices / Olivier Lopez -- PART III. SAILORS AND EMPIRE -- 12. Portuguese Seafarers : Informal Agents of Empire Building / Amélia Polónia -- 13. Spanish Mariners in a Global Context / Carla Rahn Phillips -- 14. Deserters, Mutineers and Criminals : British Sailors and Problems of Port Jurisdiction in Genoa and Livorno during the Eighteenth Century / Danilo Pedemonte -- 15. Claiming their Rights : Indian Sailors under the Dutch East India Company / Matthias van Rossum -- 16. Chinese Seamen in London and St. Helena in the Early Nineteenth Century / Yóu bó qīng -- Afterword / Maria Fusaro.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 357 pages)
• Subjects: 331.7/6313870903; History; Merchant mariners -- Legal status, laws, etc -- History; Economic history -- 1600-1750; HISTORY / Europe / General; HISTORY / World; HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century; HISTORY / Oceania; HISTORY / Social History; Economic history; Merchant mariners -- Legal status, laws, etc; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations; History -- World; History -- Social History; History -- Australia & New Zealand; History -- Europe -- General; History -- Modern -- General; General & world history; Social & cultural history; Australasian & Pacific history; European history; History: earliest times to present day; World history; Social history; History, Modern; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137447463; 9781349686049; 1349686042
• Related ISBNs: 113744746X; 9781137447456
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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