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Yellow Jack and the Worm : British Naval Administration in the West Indies, 1739-1748 / Duncan Crewe.

Title
Yellow Jack and the Worm : British Naval Administration in the West Indies, 1739-1748 / Duncan Crewe.
Author
Crewe, Duncan
Publication
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1993.

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Description
x, 321 pages : illustrations, map; 21 cm
Summary
Between 1739 and 1742 Britain's major war effort against Spain was concentrated in the Caribbean. This book sets out the problems involved in operating and administering the overseas naval bases at the heart of this effort.
Series Statement
Liverpool historical studies ; no. 9
Uniform Title
  • University press scholarship online.
  • Liverpool historical studies no. 9.
Subject
  • Great Britain. Royal Navy > History > 18th century
  • Great Britain. Royal Navy
  • 1700-1799
  • Navy-yards and naval stations > West Indies > History > 18th century
  • Naval Medicine > history
  • Bases navales > Antilles > Histoire > 18e siècle
  • 15.85 history of America
  • Navy-yards and naval stations
  • Kriegshafen
  • Verwaltung
  • Marine
  • Zeemacht
  • Koloniaal bestuur
  • Geschichte 1739-1748
  • West Indies
  • Großbritannien
  • Westindien
  • Military Science
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-315) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 0853232679
  • 9780853232674
LCCN
92249035
OCLC
26304140
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library