David Cannadine

Empire, the Sea and Global History

Britain's Maritime World, C.1760-C.1840
Herausgegeben:Cannadine, D.

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection offer the path-breaking research of leading scholars to explore the significance and complexities of Britain's maritime world in this key period through a series of thematic discussions, comparing similar and contrasting movements and events.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-00899-1
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 159
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780230008991
• ISBN-10: 0230008992
• Artikelnr.: 22703622

Autorenporträt

MAXINE BERG Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK STEPHEN CONWAY Professor of Early Modern History, University College London, UK RICHARD DRAYTON Senior Lecturer in Imperial History, University of Cambridge, UK FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO Prince of Asturias Professor of History, Tufts University, USA CATHERINE HALL Professor of Modern History, University College London, UK P.J. MARSHALL Professor Emeritus of Imperial History, Kings College, London. PHILIP MORGAN Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the American Revolutionary Era, Princeton University, USA SIMON SCHAFFER Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; D.Cannadine Britain, the Sea, the Empire, the World; F.Fernandez-Armesto Empire, Europe and British Naval Power; S.Conway Empire and British Identity: the Maritime Dimension; P.J.Marshall Cargoes: the Trade in Luxuries from Asia to Europe; M.Berg Maritime Networks and the Making of Knowledge; R.Drayton Instruments, Surveys and Maritime Empire; S.Schaffer Black Experience in Britain's Maritime World, 1763-1833; P.D.Morgan Gender and Empire; C.Hall