Global Lives Britain and the World, 1550-1800

Name: Global Lives Britain and the World, 1550-1800
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ISBN: 9780521607186

ISBN-10: 0521607183

ISBN-13: 9780521607186

Edition: 2008

Authors: Miles Ogborn

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This is a fascinating and unique account of Britain's rise as a global imperial power told through the lives of over forty individuals from a huge range of backgrounds. Miles Ogborn relates and connects the stories of monarchs and merchants, planters and pirates, slaves and sailors, captives and captains, reactionaries and revolutionaries, artists and abolitionists from all corners of the globe. These dramatic stories give new life to the exploration of the history and geography of changing global relationships, including settlement in North America, the East India Company's trade and empire, transatlantic trade, the slave trade, the rise and fall of piracy, and scientific voyaging in the…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.72" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.584



List of figures


List of tables


Acknowledgements


Brief lives


Life lines



Global lives



The Elizabethan world



Savage tales: settlement in North America



East meets West: the English East India Company in India



Into the Atlantic: the triangular trade?



Maritime labour: sailors and the seafaring world



Maritime violence: buccaneers, privateers and pirates



Human cargo: the Atlantic slave trade



Sugar islands: plantation slavery in the Caribbean



In black and white: fighting against the slave trade



Navigation and discovery: voyagers of the Pacific


Epilogue


Index