Screen LibraryGlobal lives：Britain and the world, 1550-1800
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 41 |
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| Carrier Form: | xix, 343 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521845014 (hbk.) 0521845017 (hbk.) 9780521607186 (pbk.) 0521607183 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | D856 |
| CLC: | D856.19 |
| Call Number: | D856.19/O342 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. An account of Britain's rise as a global imperial power told through the lives of over 40 individuals. Miles Ogborn connects the stories of monarchs and merchants, planters and pirates, slaves and sailors, captives and captains, reactionaries and revolutionaries, artists and abolitionists from around the world. |