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FUSARO Maria, ALLAIRE Bernard, BLAKEMORE Richard, VANNESTE Tijl (dir.), Law, Labour, and Empire. Comparative Perspectives on Seafarers, c. 1500-1800, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 384 pagesISBN : 9781137447456Prix : £68Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technological and scientific development, and cultural and material exchanges around the world. This volume adopts a comparative perspective, presenting current research about maritime labourers across three centuries, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, to understand how seafarers contributed to legal and economic transformation within Europe and across the world. Focusing on the three related themes of legal systems, labouring conditions, and imperial power, these essays explore the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between seafarers' individual and collective agency, and the social and economic frameworks which structured their lives.Table des matièresList of Figures, Maps, and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction; Maria Fusaro, Bernard Allaire, Richard J. Blakemore, and Tijl VannesteOverview: Trades, Ports and Ships: The Roots of Difference in Sailors' Lives; Richard W. UngerPART I: SAILORS AND LAWThe Invasion of Northern Litigants: English and Dutch Seamen in Mediterranean Courts of Law; Maria FusaroUntil the Very Last Nail: English Seafaring and Wage Litigation in Seventeenth-Century Livorno; Andrea AddobbatiSailors' Legal Rights in a Mediterranean Hub: the Case of Malta; Joan AbelaBetween Oléron and Colbert: The Evolution of French Maritime Law until the Seventeenth Century; Bernard AllaireThe Legal World of English Sailors, c. 1575-1729; Richard J. BlakemorePART II: SAILORS AND LABOURSailing through the Strait: Seamen's Professional Trajectories from a Segmented Labour Market in Holland to a Fragmented Mediterranean; Tijl VannesteThe Hanseatics in Southern Europe: Structure and Payment of German Long-Distance Shipping, 1630-1700; Magnus ResselMobility, Migration and Human Capital in the Long Eighteenth Century: The Life of Joseph Anton Ponsaing; Jelle van Lottum, Catherine Sumnall, and Aske BrockDividing the Spoils: Research into the Paybook and Other Documents relating to the Privateering Voyage of the Duke and Dutchess, 1711; Tim BeattieCoral Fishermen in Barbary in the Eighteenth Century: Between Norms and Practices; Olivier LopezPART III: SAILORS AND EMPIREPortuguese Seafarers: Informal Agents of Empire Building; Amélia PolóniaSpanish Mariners in a Global Context; Carla Rahn PhillipsDeserters, Mutineers and Criminals: British Sailors and Problems of Port Jurisdiction in Genoa and Livorno during the Eighteenth Century; Danilo PedemonteClaiming their Rights? Indian Sailors under the Dutch East India Company; Matthias van RossumChinese Seamen in London and St Helena in the Early Nineteenth Century; Yóu bó qīngAfterword; Maria FusaroGeneral BibliographySource : Palgrave Macmillan