Law, Labour and Empire: Comparative Perspectives on Seafarers, c. 1500–1800

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Overview. Trades, Ports and Ships: The Roots of Difference in Sailors’ Lives....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
The Invasion of Northern Litigants: English and Dutch Seamen in Mediterranean Courts of Law....Pages 21-42
Until the Very Last Nail: English Seafaring and Wage Litigation in Seventeenth-Century Livorno....Pages 43-60
Sailors’ Legal Rights in a Mediterranean Hub: The Case of Malta....Pages 61-78
Between Oléron and Colbert: The Evolution of French Maritime Law until the Seventeenth Century....Pages 79-99
The Legal World of English Sailors, c. 1575–1729....Pages 100-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Sailing through the Strait: Seamen’s Professional Trajectories from a Segmented Labour Market in Holland to a Fragmented Mediterranean....Pages 123-140
The Hanseatics in Southern Europe: Structure and Payment of German Long-Distance Shipping, 1630–1700....Pages 141-157
Mobility, Migration and Human Capital in the Long Eighteenth Century: The Life of Joseph Anton Ponsaing....Pages 158-176
Dividing the Spoils: Research into the Paybook and Other Documents relating to the Privateering Voyage of the Duke and Dutchess, 1711....Pages 177-194
Coral Fishermen in ‘Barbary’ in the Eighteenth Century: Between Norms and Practices....Pages 195-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Portuguese Seafarers: Informal Agents of Empire-Building....Pages 215-235
Spanish Mariners in a Global Context....Pages 236-255
Deserters, Mutineers and Criminals: British Sailors and Problems of Port Jurisdiction in Genoa and Livorno during the Eighteenth Century....Pages 256-271
Claiming their Rights? Indian Sailors under the Dutch East India Company....Pages 272-286
Chinese Seamen in London and St Helena in the Early Nineteenth Century....Pages 287-303
Afterword....Pages 304-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-357