Atlantic Voyages - The East India Company British Route to East in Age of Sail

A history of the East India Company told through experiences of everyday life on the ocean: maritime travel, shipboard conditions, foreign encounters, islands and ports of call, the waters of the Atlantic itself. McAleer portrays these as essential to the understanding of the Company as an agent of globalisation in the early modern world.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: 'A formidable undertaking': Travellers' tales, Atlantic voyages, and the route to the East


• 2: Embarking: 'An inhabitant of another world': Shipboard spaces and daily life


• 3: Voyaging: 'My time hangs rather heavy on my hands': Passing the time, marking the passage


• 4: Observing: 'The wonders of the boundless ocean': Sea, sky, and the living world


• 5: Stopping: 'The salutary effects of the shore': Landfall, islands, and going ashore


• 6: Conclusion: Beyond the Cape

About the author

John McAleer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southampton. His work explores the British encounter and engagement with the wider world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, situating the history of empire in its global and maritime contexts. He was previously Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Summary

A history of the East India Company told through experiences of everyday life on the ocean: maritime travel, shipboard conditions, foreign encounters, islands and ports of call, the waters of the Atlantic itself. McAleer portrays these as essential to the understanding of the Company as an agent of globalisation in the early modern world.

Additional text

McAleer here makes a significant contribution to maritime, transnational, global, and imperial histories....This book invites us to look afresh at oceanic voyages as representing a key component of the nervous system of empire: the journey undertaken by the administrators, soldiers, missionaries, wives and families that exercised and experienced Britain's imperial control at first hand.

Product details

• Authors: McAleer , Dr John (Associate Professor of History Mcaleer, John McAleer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9780192894748
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289474-8
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), India, maritime history, Colonialism & imperialism, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700