Maritime empires
Subtitle: British imperial maritime trade in the nineteenth century
By: edited by David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln and Nigel Rigby.
Contributors: Killingray, David.; Lincoln, Margarette.; Rigby, Nigel.; National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher: Rochester, NY : Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Merchant marine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Imperial seas : cultural exchange and commerce in the British Empire, 1780-1900 / David Killingray; title: From slaves to palm oil : Afro-European commercial relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1741-1841 / Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson; title: 'Pirate water' : sailing to Belize in the mahogany trade / Daniel Finamore; title: Cape to Siberia : the Indian Ocean and China Sea trade in equids / William Gervase Clarence-Smith; title: Aden, British India and the development of steam power in the Red Sea, 1825-1839 / Robert J. Blyth; title: The heroic age of the tin can : technology and ideology in British Arctic exploration, 1818-1835 / Carl Thompson; title: The proliferation and diffusion of steamship technology and the beginnings of 'new imperialism' / Robert Kubicek; title: Lakes, rivers, and oceans : technology, ethnicity and the shipping of empire in the late nineteenth century / John M. MacKenzie; title: Making imperial space : settlement, surveying and trade in northern Australia in the nineteenth century / Jordan Goodman; title: Hydrography, technology, coercion : mapping the sea in Southeast Asian imperialism, 1850-1900 / Eric Tagliacozzo; title: Pains, perils and pastimes : emigrant voyages in the nineteenth century / Marjory Harper; title: Ordering Shanghai : policing a treaty port, 1854-1900 / Robert Bickers; title: Toward a people's history of the sea / Marcus Rediker.