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03075aam a2200373 i 4500 001 112E0EDE933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231205010040 008 230412s2023 ncuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023017142 020 $a 1469676559 020 $a 9781469676555 035 $a (OCoLC)1380754434 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HF1365 C684 2023 100 1 $a Cothran, Boyd, $e author. 245 14 $a The Edwin Fox : $b how an ordinary sailing ship connected the world in the age of globalization, 1850-1914 / $c Boyd Cothran & Adrian Shubert. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 296 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Setting sail: Calcutta, India -- Teak and trade: London, 1856 -- Coolies: Havana, Cuba, 1858 -- Convicts: Western Australia, 1858 -- Freight: Bombay, India, 1860 -- Emigrants: Plymouth, England, 1878 -- Frozen lamb: Port Chalmers, New Zealand 1882 -- Museum ship: Picton, Aotearoa New Zealand, 2019. 520 $a "It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel-in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. This fascinating work of global history offers a vividly detailed and engaging narrative of globalization writ small, viewed from the decks and holds of a single vessel. The Edwin Fox connected the lives and histories of millions, though most never even saw it. Built in Calcutta in 1853, the Edwin Fox was chartered by the British navy as a troop transport during the Crimean War. In the following decades, it was sold, recommissioned, and refitted by an increasingly far-flung constellation of militaries and merchants. It sailed to exotic ports carrying luxury goods, mundane wares, and all kinds of people: not just soldiers and officials but indentured laborers brought from China to Cuba, convicts and settlers being transported from the British Empire to western Australia and New Zealand-with dire consequences for local Indigenous peoples-and others. But the power of this story rests in the everyday ways people, nations, economies, and ideas were knitted together in this foundational era of our modern world. Readers will never see globalization the same way again"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Edwin Fox (Ship) $x History. 650 0 $a Globalization $x History. 650 0 $a Sailing ships $x History. 650 0 $a Shipping $x History. 650 0 $a International trade $x History. 700 1 $a Shubert, Adrian, $d 1953- $e author. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781469676579 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043817.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=112E0EDE933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search