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This book offers a holistic re-evaluation of the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797, which immobilised the two Royal Navy fleets responsible for Britain's defence at a time when invasion seemed likely.
Callum Easton is a social, economic, and maritime historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and the British maritime world, based in the United Kingdom.
Ch 1: Introduction.- Part I: Causation.- Ch 2: Wages of Discontent.- Ch 3: A Matter of ‘Good Usage’.- Part II: Course.- Ch 4: The Wooden World Turned Upside Down.- Ch 5: The Everyday Life of Mutiny.- Part III: Aftermath.- Ch 6: Mercy Strained: Punishment and the Restoration of Order.- Ch 7: A Contest of Memory: Forgetting the Fleet Mutinies.- Ch 8: Conclusion.