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
Description: "These essays, product of a conference at the National Maritime Museum, London, are by internationally known scholars who provide a wide-ranging but comprehensive picture of the activities of maritime empire. The essays discuss a variety of maritime trades - the brutal business of the transatlantic slave trade, Honduran mahogany shipped to Britain, the movement of horses across the vast reaches of Asia and the Indian Ocean, the impact of new technologies as Empire expanded in the nineteenth century, the sailors who manned the ships, the settlers who moved overseas, and the major ports of the Imperial world, plus the role of the Navy in hydrographic survey."--Jacket.
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.