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Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail Douglas Hamilton Editor

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Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail Douglas Hamilton Editor
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 9.23 MB
Pages: 240
Author: Douglas Hamilton (editor), John McAleer (editor)
ISBN: 9780198847229, 019884722X
Language: English
Year: 2021

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Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail Douglas Hamilton Editor by Douglas Hamilton (editor), John Mcaleer (editor) 9780198847229, 019884722X instant download after payment.

Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne empires in the age of sail - as well as their intrinsic value as sources of rare commodities - meant that islands across the globe played prominent parts in imperial consolidation and expansion. This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empire in the age of sail. Thematically related chapters explore the geographical, topographical, economic, and social diversity of the islands that comprised a large component of the British Empire in an era of rapid and significant expansion.
Although many of these islands were isolated rocky outcrops, they acted as crucial nodal points, providing critical assistance for ships and men embarked on the long-distance voyages that characterized British overseas activities in the period. Intercontinental maritime trade, colonial settlement, and scientific exploration and experimentation would have been impossible without these oceanic islands. They also acted as sites of strategic competition, contestation, and conflict for rival European powers keen to outstrip each other in developing and maintaining overseas markets, plantations, and settlements.
The importance of islands outstripped their physical size, the populations they sustained, or their individual economic contribution to the imperial balance sheet. Standing at the center of maritime routes of global connectivity, islands offer historians of the British Empire fresh perspectives on the intercontinental communication, commercial connections, and territorial expansion that characterized that empire.

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