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Książka Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 Cathryn J. Pearce

Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860

Reality and Popular Myth

Autor: Cathryn J. Pearce
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Wydawca: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Although the popular myth of Cornish wrecking is well-known within British culture, this book is the...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Cathryn J. Pearce
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2010
strony
278
EAN
9781843835554
ISBN
184383555X
Enbook ID
04856241
Wydawca
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Waga
574
Wymiary
161 x 238 x 31

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Although the popular myth of Cornish wrecking is well-known within British culture, this book is the first comprehensive, systematic inquiry to separate out the layers of myth from the actual practices. Weaving in legal, social and cultural history, it traces the development of wreck law - the right to salvage goods washed on shore - and explores the responses of a coastal populace who found their customary practices increasingly outside the law, especially as local individual rights were being curtailed and the role of centralised authority asserted. This groundbreaking study also considers the myths surrounding wrecking, showing how these developed over time, and how moral attitudes towards wrecking changed. Overall, the picture of evil wreckers deliberately luring ships onto the rocks is dispelled, to be replaced by a detailed picture of a coastal populace - poor and gentry alike - who were involved in a multi-faceted, sophisticated coastal practice and who had their own complex popular beliefs about the harvest and salvage of goods washing ashore from shipwreck. CATHRYN J. PEARCE holds a PhD in Maritime History from Greenwich Maritime Institute. A former associate professor of history with the University of Alaska Anchorage's Kenai Peninsula College, she is now with University Campus Suffolk where she continues to research on the relationship of coastal people with the sea.

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