Broadsides: Caricature and the Navy 1756 - 1815

by James Davey and Richard Johns

Broadsides explores the political and cultural history of the Navy during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through contemporary caricature. This was a period of intense naval activity - encompassing the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence, the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and the War of 1812.

Naval caricatures were utilized by the press to comment on events, simultaneously reminding the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848321465
• ISBN13: 9781848321465
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.1" x 11.5"