Ever heard a story of someone being hit on the head at a bar and ending up on a British naval vessel? Dr. Denver Brunsman studies the process in between! He joins Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins to discuss impressment gangs and privateers—in other words, legal pirates in the eighteenth century. It’s another world on the water.

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Relevant Links:

Dr. Denver Brunsman, The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World – https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3575/

Privateers – https://www.britannica.com/story/pirates-privateers-corsairs-buccaneers-whats-the-difference

Pirates – https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/golden-age-piracy

Press Gangs – https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/yourcountry/overview/pressgangs-/

British Navigation Acts – https://www.britannica.com/event/Navigation-Acts

Captain Phillips – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/

Royal Ships – https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/rated-navy-ships-17th-19th-centuries

HMS Savage – https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/h-m-s-savage/

Pax Britannica – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pax%20Britannica#:~:text=%3A%20British%20peace,to%20which%20Britain%27s%20power%20extended

Pirates vs. Press Gangs: The Battle for the Atlantic by Denver Brunsman – https://www.redalyc.org/journal/2210/221065057004/html/

Denver Brunsman Talk: Pirates, Privateers, and Press Gangs in the Early Modern Atlantic (November 2015) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8-JLbUb8dg

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