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Books

  • Baugh, Daniel A. British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965.
  • ------------. "The Eighteenth-Century Navy as a National Institution, 1690-1815." In The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy, ed. J.R. Hill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Byrn, John D. Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy: Discipline on the Leeward Islands Station, 1784-1812. Aldershot, U.K.: Scolar Press, 1989.
  • Burrows, Harold, ed. The Perilous Adventures and Vicissitudes of a Naval Officer, 1801-1812; Being Part of the Memoirs of Admiral George Vernon Jackson (1787-1876). Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1927.
  • Dann, John C., ed. The Nagle Journal: A Diary of the Life of Jacob Nagle, Sailor, from the Year 1775 to 1841. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
  • Eder, Markus. Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy of the Seven Years War, 1755-1763. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
  • Gilje, Paul. Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
  • Gwyn, Julian. Frigates and Foremasts: The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters, 1745-1815. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003.
  • ------------. Ashore and Afloat : The British Navy and the Halifax Naval Yard before 1820. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004.
  • King, Dean, and John B. Hattendorf, eds. Every Man Will Do His Duty: An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
  • Lambert, Andrew. War at Sea in the Age of Sail 1650-1850 Cassell History of Warfare, ed. John Keegan. London: Cassell and Co., 2000.
  • Lavery, Brian. Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation 1793-1815. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
  • ------------, ed. Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815. Aldershot, U.K.: Navy Records Society, 1998.
  • Lewis, Michael. A Social History of the Navy 1793-1815. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1960.
  • Linebaugh, Peter, and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.
  • Lloyd, Christopher. The British Seaman 1200-1860: A Social Survey.London: Collins, 1968.
  • Rediker, Marcus. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • Rodger, N.A.M. The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. Glasgow: Fontana, 1986.
  • ------------. The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815. London: Allen Lane, 2004.
  • ------------. Naval Records for Genealogists. Third ed. Kew, Surrey: PRO Publications, 1998.
  • Vickers, Daniel, and Vince Walsh. Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
  • Wareham, Tom. Frigate Commander. Barnsley, Yorks. UK: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2004.
  • ------------. The Star Captains: Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
  • Wilkinson, Clive. The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century. Woodbridge, Suff., UK: Boydell Press, 2004.

About the author

Martin Hubley holds an MA in War Studies from King's College, London and is completing his PhD dissertation at the Department of History of the University of Ottawa, on desertion, identity and the experience of authority on the North American station of the Royal Navy between 1745 and 1812. He would like to thank Paul Johnson and Tim Padfield of TNA for their assistance with copyright issues, as well as the Nova Scotia Museum, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, and the John Carter Brown library in Providence, Rhode Island, all of whom provided research funding for his larger doctoral project, some of which is presented here.