- We will send in 10–14 business days.
/images/books/3645307/9780521607186.jpg)
- Author: Miles Ogborn
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN-10: 0521607183
- ISBN-13: 9780521607186
- Format: 16.3 x 24.1 x 2 cm, softcover
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
Reviews
Description
This is a fascinating and unique account of Britain's rise as a global imperial power told through the lives of over forty individuals from a huge range of backgrounds. Miles Ogborn relates and connects the stories of monarchs and merchants, planters and pirates, slaves and sailors, captives and captains, reactionaries and revolutionaries, artists and abolitionists from all corners of the globe. These dramatic stories give new life to the exploration of the history and geography of changing global relationships, including settlement in North America, the East India Company's trade and empire, transatlantic trade, the slave trade, the rise and fall of piracy, and scientific voyaging in the Pacific. Through these many biographies, including those of Anne Bonny, Captain Cook, Queen Elizabeth I, Pocahontas, and Walter Ralegh, early modern globalisation is presented as something through which different people lived in dramatically contrasting ways, but in which everyone played a part.
EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
The promotion ends in 19d.07:33:11
The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.
- Author: Miles Ogborn
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN-10: 0521607183
- ISBN-13: 9780521607186
- Format: 16.3 x 24.1 x 2 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
This is a fascinating and unique account of Britain's rise as a global imperial power told through the lives of over forty individuals from a huge range of backgrounds. Miles Ogborn relates and connects the stories of monarchs and merchants, planters and pirates, slaves and sailors, captives and captains, reactionaries and revolutionaries, artists and abolitionists from all corners of the globe. These dramatic stories give new life to the exploration of the history and geography of changing global relationships, including settlement in North America, the East India Company's trade and empire, transatlantic trade, the slave trade, the rise and fall of piracy, and scientific voyaging in the Pacific. Through these many biographies, including those of Anne Bonny, Captain Cook, Queen Elizabeth I, Pocahontas, and Walter Ralegh, early modern globalisation is presented as something through which different people lived in dramatically contrasting ways, but in which everyone played a part.
Reviews