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

"These essays, product of a conference at the National Maritime Museum, London, are by internationally known scholars who provide a wide-ranging but comprehensive picture of the activities of maritime empire. The essays discuss a variety of maritime trades -- the brutal business of the transatl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Killingray, David (Editor ), Lincoln, Margarette (Editor ), Rigby, Nigel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum, [2004]
Temas:
1800-1899
Merchant marine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
HISTORY > Military > Naval.
British colonies
Commerce
Merchant marine
Scheepvaart.
Handel.
Great Britain > Commerce > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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