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Author:

Ogborn, Miles.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

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

Subject:

Great Britain--History.--History.
Great Britain--History.--History.
Great Britain--History.--History.
Great Britain--Economic conditions.
Great Britain--Civilization.
Imperialism--History.
Imperialismus--Grossbritannien--Biographie.
Kolonie--britische--Geschichte Neuzeit--Biographie.
Handel--Grossbritannien--Geschichte Neuzeit--Biographie.
Sklaverei--Grossbritannien--Geschichte Neuzeit--Biographie.
Grossbritannien--Aussenpolitik--Geschichte Neuzeit--Biographie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 41

ISBN:

0521607183 (pbk.)
9780521607186 (pbk.)
0521845017 (hbk.)
9780521845014 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)227031732

LCCN:

2008025897

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)