Maritime empires British imperial maritime trade in the nineteenth century
Maritime empires: British imperial maritime trade in the nineteenth century

Britain's empire was sustained by shipping. These studies are concerned with a range of enterprises, both home and colonial, in which shipping was involved, relating to goods, people, ideas. Britain's overseas Empire pre-eminently involved the sea. In a two-way process, ships carried trave...

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Weitere Verfasser: Killingray, David 1939- (HerausgeberIn), Lincoln, Margarette 1953- (HerausgeberIn), Rigby, Nigel (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY : Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum 2004
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1740-1900
Merchant marine / Great Britain / History / 19th century
Imperialismus
Schiffstechnik
Seehandel
Great Britain / Commerce / History / 19th century
Great Britain / Colonies / History / 19th century
Großbritannien
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Zusammenfassung:Britain's empire was sustained by shipping. These studies are concerned with a range of enterprises, both home and colonial, in which shipping was involved, relating to goods, people, ideas. Britain's overseas Empire pre-eminently involved the sea. In a two-way process, ships carried travellers and explorers, trade goods, migrants to new lands, soldiers to fight wars and garrison colonies, and also ideas and plants that would find fertile minds and soils in other lands. These essays, deriving from a National Maritime Museum (London) conference, provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive picture of the activities of maritime empire. They discussa variety of issues: maritime trades, among them the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Honduran mahogany for shipping to Britain, the movement of horses across the vast reaches of Asia and the Indian Ocean; the impact of new technologies as Empire expanded in the nineteenth century; the sailors who manned the ships, the settlers who moved overseas, and the major ports of the Imperial world; plus the role of the navy in hydrographic survey. Published in association with the National Maritime Museum. DAVID KILLINGRAY is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Goldsmiths College London; MARGARETTE LINCOLN and NIGEL RIGBY are in the research department of the National Maritime Museum
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Introduction. Imperial seas : cultural exchange and commerce in the British Empire, 1780-1900 / David Killingray -- From slaves to palm oil : Afro-European commercial relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1741-1841 / Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- 'Pirate water' : sailing to Belize in the mahogany trade / Daniel Finamore -- Cape to Siberia : the Indian Ocean and China Sea trade in equids / William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- Aden, British India and the development of steam power in the Red Sea, 1825-1839 / Robert J. Blyth -- The heroic age of the tin can : technology and ideology in British Arctic exploration, 1818-1835 / Carl Thompson -- The proliferation and diffusion of steamship technology and the beginnings of 'new imperialism' / Robert Kubicek -- Lakes, rivers, and oceans : technology, ethnicity and the shipping of empire in the late nineteenth century / John M. MacKenzie -- Making imperial space : settlement, surveying and trade in northern Australia in the nineteenth century / Jordan Goodman -- Hydrography, technology, coercion : mapping the sea in Southeast Asian imperialism, 1850-1900 / Eric Tagliacozzo -- Pains, perils and pastimes : emigrant voyages in the nineteenth century / Marjory Harper -- Ordering Shanghai : policing a treaty port, 1854-1900 / Robert Bickers -- Toward a people's history of the sea / Marcus Rediker
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 229 Seiten)
ISBN:9781846152450
DOI:10.1017/9781846152450

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