Global lives : Britain and the world, 1550-1800
by
 
Ogborn, Miles.

Title
Global lives : Britain and the world, 1550-1800

Author
Ogborn, Miles.

ISBN
9780521845014
 
9780521607186

Personal Author
Ogborn, Miles.

Publication Information
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Physical Description
xix, 343 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Series
Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 41

Series Title
Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 41

Contents
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.

Subject Term
Imperialism -- History.

Geographic Term
Great Britain -- Commerce -- History.
 
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- History.
 
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
 
Great Britain -- Economic conditions.
 
Great Britain -- Civilization.


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