Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800

ISBN-13: 9780521607186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 364 str.

Miles Ogborn

Opis

Fascinating account of Britain's rise as a global imperial power told through the lives of over forty individuals worldwide.

Recenzje

'Miles Ogburn wrote Global Lives to highlight human agency in the development of the British Empire, and 'to put the life back into global history' … He succeeds on both counts … constructs a rich, complex and multifaceted story of an empire's expansion by fits and starts. … Well-written, thoughtful and sympathetic, Global Lives deserves broad appeal for undergraduates, as well as the general public.' The Geographical Journal

Spis treści

1. Global lives; 2. The Elizabethan world; 3. Savage tales: settlement in North America; 4. East meets west: the English East India Company in India; 5. Into the Atlantic: the triangular trade?; 6. Maritime labour: sailors and the seafaring world; 7. Maritime violence: buccaneers, privateers and pirates; 8. Human cargo: the Atlantic slave trade; 9. Sugar islands: plantation slavery in the Caribbean; 10. In black and white: fighting against the slave trade; 11. Navigation and discovery: voyagers of the Pacific; Epilogue.