Denver Brunsman, Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University, USA is an editor of both Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development and Revolutionary Detroit: Portraits in Political and Cultural Change, 1760–1805.
"Brunsman has made an invaluable contribution to the literature on
the British navy and the Atlantic world. Any further studies of
eighteenth-century impressment will have to begin with The Evil
Necessity."--Robert W. Smith "The Journal of Southern History "
"With this book, Brunsman has provided a welcome corrective to
scholarship on impressment and a fresh way to consider the role of
the institution in the creation and expansion of the British
Empire."--Charles R. Foy, Eastern Illinois University
I would certainly call Brunsman's book required reading for
scholars interested in the economics, politics, and culture of the
Atlantic world and, likewise, for naval historians. --Peter
Staffel, West Liberty University
" The Evil Necessity is crucial reading for scholars of the British
Empire, but will be of great value as well to anyone interested in
the negotiation of freedom between center and periphery, and
between impersonal systems and individual agency."--Natalie A.
Zacek, University of Manchester
"At once deeply researched and eminently readable, Denver
Brunsman's new book on British naval impressment during the long
eighteenth-century is the first book-length study of this important
topic in a very long time."--W. Jeffrey Bolster, University of New
Hampshire Durham
Aspects of the colonial story have been told before...No one has
quite tied it together so ably, and here Brunsman displays
considerable powers of synthesis and engagement as well as a fine
writing style.--Nicholas Rogers, York University
Denver Brunsman's examination of British impressment in the
Atlantic world emphasizes the importance of sailors to British
global power, and the clash of ideas with the American colonies
that helped to spark both the War of Independence and the War of
1812 and that sustained Anglo-American antagonism down to the
1860s. It remains a potent metaphor for the tyranny of King
George.--Andrew Lambert, King's College London
Impressment remains a potent metaphor for the tyranny of George
III. The author reproduces some engaging engravings and provides a
rich bibliography; his research is as thorough as his writing is
fine. Given Brunsman's interest in liberty, his book especially
reveals impressment's costs to individuals and to their families.
Summing Up: Recommended.-- "CHOiCE"
The author reproduces some engaging engravings and provides a rich
bibliography; his research is as thorough as his writing is fine.
Given Brunsman's interest in liberty, his book especially reveals
impressment's costs to individuals and to their families. Summing
Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty.--B. M. Gough, Wilfrid
Laurier University
The first book-length study of British naval impressments in a
transatlantic context, The Evil Necessity tells the fascinating
story of impressments in the British and British colonial world.
Denver Brunsman is a fine storyteller and an excellent writer, who
offers a highly original piece of scholarship on a subject that has
received remarkably little scholarly attention--John Dann, editor
of The Nagle Journal: A Diary of the Life of Jacob Nagle, Sailor,
from the Year 1775 to 1841
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