The British Navy in the Caribbean 9781783275892, 9781800100831

Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815: Control, Resistance, Flogging and Hanging 1783271191, 9781783271191

Churchill once famously remarked that he would not join the navy because it was "all rum, sodomy and the lash"

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The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855: Maritime Encounters and British Museum Collections 3030600963, 9783030600969

This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal

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Sustaining the Fleet, 1793-1815: War, the British Navy and the Contractor State 1843835649, 9781843835646

Provisioning the fleet, and the army overseas, during the French Wars of 1793-1815 was a major undertaking. This book ex

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Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor Migration in the British Caribbean 0812234677, 9780812234671

When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of pa

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On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World 0820335673, 9780820335674

How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlant

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The Merchant Navy 0747812322, 9780747812326

This title tells the epic story of Britains merchant shipping, carrying exotic goods from all quarters of the world. At

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History of the Royal Navy in the 20th century 0861243641

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U.S. Policy in the Caribbean 0891580611

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Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean 1421414694, 9781421414690

In Hubs of Empire, Matthew Mulcahy argues that it is useful to view Barbados, Jamaica, and the British Leeward Islands,

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The French Navy in World War II 9781591145660

Prior to this book's original publication in 1959 little had been done to dispel confusion regarding what really ha

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