Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson

by Margarette Lincoln

A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars

In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain's military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300227485
• ISBN13: 9780300227482
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"