Global lives
Subtitle: Britain and the world, 1550--1800
By: Miles Ogborn.
Series: Cambridge studies in historical geography -- 41
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780521845014; 9780521607186
Subjects: Imperialism -- History; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- History; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Global lives; title: The Elizabethan world; title: Savage tales : settlement in North America; title: East meets west : the English East India Company in India; title: Into the Atlantic : the triangular trade?; title: Maritime labour : sailors and the seafaring world; title: Maritime violence : buccaneers, privateers and pirates; title: Human cargo : the Atlantic slave trade; title: Sugar islands : plantation slavery in the Caribbean; title: In black and white : fighting against the slave trade; title: Navigation and discovery : voyagers of the Pacific.