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Law, Labour, and Empire

Comparative Perspectives on Seafarers, c. 1500-1800

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  1. Maria Fusaro

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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  2. Bernard Allaire

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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  3. Richard J. Blakemore

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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  4. Tijl Vanneste

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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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 and reciprocal relationship between seafarers' individual and collective agency, and the social and economic frameworks which structured their lives.

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Overview. Trades, Ports and Ships: The Roots of Difference in Sailors’ Lives

    1. Overview. Trades, Ports and Ships: The Roots of Difference in Sailors’ Lives

      • Richard W. Unger
      Pages 1-17

  4. Seamen and Labour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Sailing through the Strait: Seamen’s Professional Trajectories from a Segmented Labour Market in Holland to a Fragmented Mediterranean

      • Tijl Vanneste
      Pages 123-140

    3. The Hanseatics in Southern Europe: Structure and Payment of German Long-Distance Shipping, 1630–1700

      • Magnus Ressel
      Pages 141-157

    4. Mobility, Migration and Human Capital in the Long Eighteenth Century: The Life of Joseph Anton Ponsaing

      • Jelle van Lottum, Aske Brock, Catherine Sumnall
      Pages 158-176

    5. Dividing the Spoils: Research into the Paybook and Other Documents relating to the Privateering Voyage of the Duke and Dutchess, 1711

      • Tim Beattie
      Pages 177-194

    6. Coral Fishermen in ‘Barbary’ in the Eighteenth Century: Between Norms and Practices

      • Olivier Lopez
      Pages 195-211
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter, UK

    Maria Fusaro, Bernard Allaire, Tijl Vanneste

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Richard J. Blakemore

About the authors

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 University, France and the University of the Humanities, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Amélia Polónia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Carla Rahn Phillips, retired from University of Minnesota, USA Danilo Pedemonte, Università di Genova, Italy Matthias van Rossum, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands Yóu bó q?ng, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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