Wrecking, 1700-1860. Reality and popular myths
Details:
- Author(s) Pearce, Cathryn J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2010
- Pages 265pp
- Publisher Boydell Press
- Place Published Woodbridge
Topics:
- Name Legal issues
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
'First comprehensive, systematic inquiry to separate out the layers of myth from the actual practices'. Traces development of wreck law and response of coastal populace to it; the relationship between legal salvage and illegal wrecking; etc