Law, labour, and empire : comparative perspectives on seafarers, c. 1500-1800

• Tipo: Livro
• Data: 2015

Autores

Fusaro, Maria (Editor) Outra; Allaire, Bernard (Editor) Outra; Blakemore, Richard (Editor) Outra; Vanneste, Tijl (Editor) Outra; Dunford, Michael (Editor) Outra

Editora

Palgrave Macmillan

Cham

Classificação Científica

FOS: Humanidades

Outras Informações

DOI: 10.1057/9781137447463

Abstract (EN): Law, Labour, and Empire provides a comparative analysis of the development and impact of maritime labour and law in the early modern period. 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.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 384

ISBN: 978-1-137-44745-6

ISBN Eletrónico: 978-1-137-44746-3