Travel, Trade and Power in the Atlantic, 1765-1884

Klappentext Considers trade, travel and power between Britain and Jamaica and West Africa. Zusammenfassung This Miscellany publishes the correspondence of Simon Taylor! 1765-1775! on the management of the Jamaican estates of British M.P. Chaloner Arcedekne and a description of three voyages made by John Langdon to Africa in the early 1880s that illuminate life on board a ship and Bristol and its merchants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Editorial Note; The Letters of Simon Taylor of Jamaica to Chaloner Arcedekne! 1765-1775; Three Voyages to the West Coast of Africa! 1881-1884 by J. C. Langdon; Index.

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• Authors: Betty Wood, Betty (University of Cambridge) Lynn Wood, Betty Lynn Wood
• Assisted by: Martin Lynn (Editor), Martin (Queen's University Belfast) Lynn (Editor), Betty Wood (Editor), Betty (University of Cambridge) Wood (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2003
• EAN: 9780521823128
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82312-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Camden Fifth Series; Camden Fifth; Camden Fifth Series, Series Nu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous