The Press Gang
Book description
Nicholas Rogers' book gives the reader a detailed and illuminating insight into the world and ways of the press gang. The press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for depriving men of their liberty and carrying them away…
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I love how Nicholas Rogers recreates a lost world in this book. This is a world where it was not at all strange for a man to be abducted from a seaside tavern by a gang of men and thrown into a British warship to serve the king.
The best book on naval impressment in Britain, this book shows how this form of forced service had a deep social impact. I especially appreciate the impressive social research that illustrates how impressment devastated families and drove whole seaport communities into rioting and other violent forms of resistance.
From Denver's list on grateful for not being a seaman in the Age of Sail.
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