Geographically, Lincoln’s focus is strikingly narrow. Lincoln looks to tell a fine-grained story of how ordinary residents of these Thames-side districts responded to and coped with the monumental changes that rocked Britain’s global empire during the second half of the eighteenth century. In Trading in War: London’s Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson, author Margarette Lincoln carefully reconstructs the social, economic, and political world of Londoners who owed their lives and livelihoods to the steady stream of maritime traffic coming in and out of the imperial capital. For some it was the best of times, for others, the worst. Clinging to the serpentine curves of the River Thames east of the Tower of London, neighborhoods that thrived on connection to the maritime world were places of patriotism and radicalism, of excitement and anxiety, inhabited by the rich and the poor, contested by capital and labor. The maritime districts of eighteenth-century London possessed a kind of Dickensian duality. London and the Eighteenth-Century Maritime World Douglas Catterall (Cameron University of Oklahoma) Reviewed by Blake Earle (Texas A&M University at Galveston)Ĭommissioned by W. Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson.
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