Empire, The Sea and Global History Britain's Maritime World, c.1760-c.1840 [Hardcover]

The essays in this collection offer the path-breaking research of leading scholars to explore the significance and complexities of Britain's maritime world in this key period through a series of thematic discussions, comparing similar and contrasting movements and events.Introduction; D.Cannadine Britain, the Sea, the Empire, the World; F.Fernandez-Armesto Empire, Europe and British Naval Power; S.Conway Empire and British Identity: the Maritime Dimension; P.J.Marshall Cargoes: the Trade in Luxuries from Asia to Europe; M.Berg Maritime Networks and the Making of Knowledge; R.Drayton Instruments, Surveys and Maritime Empire; S.Schaffer Black Experience in Britain's Maritime World, 1763-1833; P.D.Morgan Gender and Empire; C.HallMAXINE BERG Professor of History, University of Warwick, UKSTEPHEN CONWAY Professor of Early Modern History, University College London, UKRICHARD DRAYTON Senior Lecturer in Imperial History, University of Cambridge, UKFELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO Prince of Asturias Professor of History, Tufts University, USACATHERINE HALL Professor of Modern History, University College London, UKP.J. MARSHALL Professor Emeritus of Imperial History, Kings College, London.PHILIP MORGAN Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the American Revolutionary Era, Princeton University, USASIMON SCHAFFER Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK