This is a collection of soundings into various aspects of the history of maritime labor from the close of the Middle … empirical reconstructions of the lifeways of peoples long rendered silent in the writing of history. … Germany, 1700-1900 -- Swedish naval personnel in the merchant marine and in foreign naval service in the eighteenth century …

needs : the cost of war and extraordinary revenue -- Foreseeing difficulties and administering for the future : the public … debt -- The administration of income : spending and the contractor state -- Shipbuilding, the navy and the contractor state …