Global Lives. Britain And The World, 1550-1800

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 343 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This is a fascinating and unique account of Britains 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 Companys 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.

ISBN: 9780521607186