John Mcaleer

eBook, ePUB

Britain's Maritime Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820

Beschreibung

A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain that connected seas and continents, this gateway bridged the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which, with its commercial links and strategic requirements, formed a global web that reflected the development of the British Empire in the period. The book examines how contemporaries perceived, understood and represented this area; the ways in which it worked as an alternative hub of empire, enabling the movement of people, goods, and ideas, as well as facilitating information and intelligence exchanges; and the networks of administration, security and control that helped to cement British imperial power.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.71MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

John McAleer is the Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning author of Rex Stout: A Biography and the Pulitzer nominated Emerson: Days of Encounter. He taught English Literature at Harvard and then Boston College for more than half a century and was also a permanent fellow at Durham University, England. McAleer created 1920s London-based private detective Henry von Stray in 1937, during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The Great Depression and McAleer's World War Two service interrupted the von Stray series and all the stories were believed lost until an original von Stray manuscript was discovered more than 80 years later.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316551981
• Artikelnr.: 49272017