David Killingray & Margarette Lincoln 
Maritime Empires 
British Imperial Maritime Trade in the Nineteenth Century

Britain’s empire was sustained by shipping. These studies are concerned with a range of enterprises, both home and colonial, in which shipping was involved, relating to goods, people, ideas.


Britain’s overseas Empire pre-eminently involved the sea. In a two-way process, ships carried travellers and explorers, trade goods, migrants to new lands, soldiers to fight wars and garrison colonies, and also ideas and plants that would find fertile minds and soils in other lands. These essays, deriving from a National Maritime Museum (London) conference, provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive picture of the activities of maritime empire. They discussa variety of issues: maritime trades, among them the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Honduran mahogany for shipping to Britain, the movement of horses across the vast reaches of Asia and the Indian Ocean; the impact of new technologies as Empire expanded in the nineteenth century; the sailors who manned the ships, the settlers who moved overseas, and the major ports of the Imperial world; plus the role of the navy in hydrographic survey.

Published in association with the National Maritime Museum.

DAVID KILLINGRAY is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Goldsmiths College London; MARGARETTE LINCOLN and NIGEL RIGBY are in the research department of the National Maritime Museum.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction –

From Slaves to Palm Oil: Afro-European Commercial Relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1741-1841 – Paul Lovejoy

`Pirate Water‘: Sailing to Belize in the Mahogany Trade – Daniel Finamore

Cape to Siberia: the Indian Ocean and China Sea Trade in Equids – William G Clarence-Smith

Aden, British India and the Development of Steam Power in the Red Sea, 1825-1839 – R J Blyth

The Heroic Age of the Tin Can: Technology and Ideology in British Arctic Exploration, 1818-1835 – Carl Thompson

The Proliferation and Diffusion of Steamship Technology and the Beginnings of `New Imperialism‘ – Robert Kubicek

Lakes, Rivers and Oceans: Technology, Ethnicity and the Shipping of Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century – John Mackenzie

Making Imperial Space: Settlement, Surveying and Trade in Northern Australia in the Nineteenth Century – Jordan Goodman

Hydrography, Technology, Coercion: Mapping the Sea in South-East Asian Imperialism, 1850-1900 – Eric Tagliacozzo

Pains, Perils and Pastimes: Emigrant Voyages in the Nineteenth Century – Marjory Harper

Ordering Shanghai: Policing a Treaty Port, 1854-1900 – Robert Bickers

Towards a People’s History of the Sea – Marcus Rediker