Global Lives - Britain and the World, 1550 - 1800

Informationen zum Autor Miles Ogborn is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous publications include Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies, 1680-1780 (1998) and Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (2007). Zusammenfassung Fascinating account of Britain's rise as a global imperial power told through dramatic biographical narratives of over forty individuals. Gives new life to the exploration of the history and geography of changing global relationships! including the slave trade! piracy! scientific voyaging in the Pacific and the settlement of North America. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Global lives; 2. The Elizabethan world; 3. Savage tales: settlement in North America; 4. East meets west: the English East India Company in India; 5. Into the Atlantic: the triangular trade?; 6. Maritime labour: sailors and the seafaring world; 7. Maritime violence: buccaneers, privateers and pirates; 8. Human cargo: the Atlantic slave trade; 9. Sugar islands: plantation slavery in the Caribbean; 10. In black and white: fighting against the slave trade; 11. Navigation and discovery: voyagers of the Pacific; Epilogue.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Miles Ogborn
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.10.2008
• EAN: 9780521607186
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60718-6
• Pagine: 360
• Dimensioni: 175 mm x 248 mm x 22 mm
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Historica; Cambridge Studies in Historica
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni