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Spain's Men of the Sea by Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina & Carla Rahn Phillips
Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
In the sixteenth century, Spain's control over its vast New World empire depended on the sailors and officers who manned the galleons and merchant vessels of its Atlantic fleets. Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina paints a stunning portrait of the daily life of these crews aboard the ships of the Spanish Main. He also describes relations among the ship owners, officers, and crews, and traces the intervention of the Spanish government in disputes over pay and cases of insubordination and mistreatment. Perez-Mallaina paints a bleak picture of life at sea - cramped quarters, vermin infestation, fear of shipwreck, and threats from pirates - and its physical and mental effect on seamen and passengers. Most sailors were highly superstitious, and Perez-Mallaina closes his vivid study with an exploration of their unorthodox religious beliefs, which combined Christian and pagan elements. A significant contribution to maritime history, Spain's Men of the Sea also succeeds as a compelling tale of life and death at sea. |
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| Author(s) : Carla Rahn Phillips | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0801881838 | ISBN-13 : 9780801881831 |
| RRP : £13.50 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 15/04/2005
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page Length : 304mm
Page Size : 229mm