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The Rise of an Early Modern Shipping Industry - Whitby`s Golden Fleet, 1600-1750
110,00 €
Boydell Press
Sivumäärä: 212 sivua
Asu: Kovakantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2011, 19.05.2011 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
Provides a huge amount of detail about everyday maritime life in the important port of Whitby, home port of Captain Cook.

The ancient but isolated town of Whitby has made a huge contribution to the maritime history of Britain: Captain Cook learned sailing and navigation here; during the eighteenth century the town was a provider of an exceptionally large number of transport ships in wartime; and in the nineteenth century Whitby became a major whaling port. This book examines how it came to be such an important shipping centre.
Drawing on extensive maritime records, the author shows that it was commercial entrepreneurship which brought about the growth of Whitby's shipping industry, first in the export of local alum and carrying coal to London, then in northern European trades, alongside its very successful ship-building industry.
The book includes details from the financial accounts of voyages. These provide a fascinating insight into seafaring in the period with details of the hierarchical structure of crews,and of shipboard apprentices learning the trade. Overall, a very full picture emerges of every aspect of the shipping industry of this key port.

ROSALIN BARKER is an Honorary Fellow in the History Department at the University of Hull, and was formerly a tutor in adult education at the universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Hull and the Open University.

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