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Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800
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Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800 Hardback - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Miles Ogborn

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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.

Details

  • Title Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800
  • Author Miles Ogborn
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 2008-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521845014 / 0521845017
  • Weight 1.89 lbs (0.86 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 7 x 1 in (24.89 x 17.78 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Economic conditions, Imperialism - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008025897
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.410

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