Global Lives

Britain and the World, 1550-1800
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-521-60718-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 363 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 628 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography

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 Pacific. Through these many biographies, including those of Anne Bonny, Captain Cook, Queen Elizabeth I, Pocahontas, and Walter Ralegh, early modern globalisation is presented as something through which different people lived in dramatically contrasting ways, but in which everyone played a part.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ogborn, Miles

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Ogborn, Miles
Miles Ogborn is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous publications include Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies, 1680–1780 (1998) and Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (2007).