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Maritime Empires: British Imperial Maritime Trade in the Nineteenth Century

By Margarette Lincoln , David Killingray , Nigel Rigby

Book information

Publisher
Boydell Press
Year
2004
ISBN
1843830760, 9781843830764, 9781846152450
LCC
HF3505.8 .M37 2004
Open Library ID
OL18806870M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
752 kB (769954 bytes)
Pages
243\243
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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 discuss a 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.

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