Peter Earle is een vooraanstaand economisch historicus. Zijn werk duikt in de complexe dynamiek van economieën uit het verleden en biedt inzichtelijke analyses van hun structuren en evolutie. Lezers kunnen wetenschappelijke maar toegankelijke verkenningen van historische economische trends en hun impact verwachten.
Since Gemmology was published, readers have used it to gain an in-depth appreciation of the science of gemmology, its history and practice.This third edition has been completely revised to cover the latest methods of gem enhancement and identification, as well as the latest test instruments and laboratory techniques.
Presents the history of the English merchant seaman in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - a period during which England rose to dominance in world commence and became the greatest naval power in the world. This work explores various aspects of the sailor's life: conditions of service, wealth and possessions, life aboard a ship, and more.
Investigating the fascination pirates hold over the popular imagination, Peter Earle takes the fable of ocean-going Robin Hoods sailing under the "banner of King Death" and contrasts it with the murderous reality of robbery, torture and death and the freedom of a short, violent life on the high seas. The book charts 250 years of piracy, from Cornwall to the Caribbean, from the 16th century to the hanging of the last pirate captain in Boston in 1835. Along the way, we meet characters like Captain Thomas Cocklyn, chosen as commander of his ship "on account of his brutality and ignorance," and Edward Teach, the notorious "Blackbeard," who felt of his crew "that if he did not now and then kill one of them they would forget who he was." Using material from British Admiralty records, this is an account of the Golden Age of pirates and of the men of the legitimate navies of the world charged with the task of finally bringing these cutthroats to justice.
Investigates the fascination pirates hold over popular imagination, taking the fable of ocean-going Robin Hoodsailing under the banner of King Death and contrasting it with the muderous reality of robbery, torture and death, and the freedom of a short, violent life on the high seas.
The last fight of the Revenge, which took place during the last two days of August 1591, remains one of the most famous of all sea fights in English history. The courage of Sir Richard Grenville who stood firm with one ship against an armada of 53 has inspired generations of seafarers as well as Tennyson's evocative poem, The revenge : a ballad of the fleet.