Nicholas Rogers is a leading expert on the social history of eighteenth-century Britain. He is professor of History at York University, Toronto. His many books include Whigs and Cities: Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt and Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain.

• Introduction; Impressment and the Law; Resisting the Press gang: Trends, Patterns, Dynamics; Spotlight on Two Ports: Bristol and Liverpool; Manning the Navy in the Mid-century Atlantic; The Navy and the Nation, 1793-1820; Epilogue.

"The Press Gang was a pleasure to read.  Rogers has done his research, consulting a variety of primary sources including Admiralty records, numerous newspapers of the period and pamphlets.  He places the press gang and community resistance to their activities in a new light, and challenges the prevailing historiography of British naval history by bringing this story to light.  By examining the violent practices of the Navy, and the British government's support of them, Rogers has transcended the prevailing heroic interpretation of naval history." -Donald H. Parkerson, Nautical Research Journal, Vol. 54, June 2009