John Mcaleer

Atlantic Voyages

The East India Company and the British Route to the East in the Age of Sail

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Produktbeschreibung

A history of the East India Company told through experiences of everyday life on the ocean: maritime travel, shipboard conditions, foreign encounters, islands and ports of call, the waters of the Atlantic itself. McAleer portrays these as essential to the understanding of the Company as an agent of globalisation in the early modern world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780192894748
• ISBN-10: 0192894749
• Artikelnr.: 67863802

Autorenporträt

John McAleer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southampton. His work explores the British encounter and engagement with the wider world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, situating the history of empire in its global and maritime contexts. He was previously Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction: 'A formidable undertaking': Travellers' tales,
Atlantic voyages, and the route to the East
* 2: Embarking: 'An inhabitant of another world': Shipboard spaces and
daily life
* 3: Voyaging: 'My time hangs rather heavy on my hands': Passing the
time, marking the passage
* 4: Observing: 'The wonders of the boundless ocean': Sea, sky, and the
living world
* 5: Stopping: 'The salutary effects of the shore': Landfall, islands,
and going ashore
* 6: Conclusion: Beyond the Cape