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
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: value: Global lives; value: The Elizabethan world; value: Savage tales : settlement in North America; value: East meets west : the English East India Company in India; value: Into the Atlantic : the triangular trade?; value: Maritime labour : sailors and the seafaring world; value: Maritime violence : buccaneers, privateers and pirates; value: Human cargo : the Atlantic slave trade; value: Sugar islands : plantation slavery in the Caribbean; value: In black and white : fighting against the slave trade; value: Navigation and discovery : voyagers of the Pacific.