Britain's Maritime Empire
Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820
A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain that connected seas and continents, this gateway bridged the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which, with its commercial links and strategic requirements, formed a global web that reflected the development of the British Empire in the period. The book examines how contemporaries perceived, understood and represented this area; the ways in which it work…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-316-55394-7
- EAN: 9781316553947
- Produktnummer: 25428404
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'991 KB
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