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A new unused book.

About the book >.>.> Bristol was a premier Atlantic port and a favoured site for naval recruitment in the years when Britain emerged as a major international power. This documentary collection charts the fortunes of enlistment over the course of the mid-to-late century wars ending in 1815. It is the first collection in British maritime history to probe the problems of manning the navy in one port over several wars. Bristol seamen sometimes volunteered but increasingly the navy impressed its seafarers a policy that encountered violent resistance and evasion in the port itself and at the estuary of the Avon. Naval recruitment was an intrusive business one of the major ways in which quayside workers and their families confronted the eighteenth-century state. This collection looks at how Bristolians handled that predicament in affrays riots bounties buy-outs and petitions. (SP)