Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
Leon Fink, "Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present"
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | ISBN 10: 0807834505 | 2011 | PDF | 272 pages | 4.4 MB
The merchant marine offers an ideal setting for examining the changing…
Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
W. Jeffrey Bolster, "Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail"
Publisher: Harvard University Press | 1997 | ISBN: 0674076249 | PDF | 336 pages | 1.4 MB
Few Americans recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. Seafaring was one of the most significant…
Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of Elizabethan Seamen, 1580 1603
Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of Elizabethan Seamen, 1580-1603
Publisher: Greenwood Press | ISBN: 0313319480 | edition 2001 | PDF | 312 pages | 1.19 mb
The age of maritime expansion and the Anglo-Spanish War have been analyzed by generations of historians, but nearly all studies have…