Britain's Maritime Empire

Britain's Maritime Empire
Author: John McAleer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107100720


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Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region that connected the Atlantic and Indian oceans at the centre of a vital maritime chain linking Europe with Asia, the book re-examines and reappraises Britain's oceanic empire.


Britain's Maritime Empire
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: John McAleer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region th
The Victorian Empire and Britain's Maritime World, 1837-1901
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: M. Taylor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-04 - Publisher: Springer

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A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a mari
Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Douglas Hamilton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empir
Britain's Oceanic Empire
Language: en
Pages: 485
Authors: H. V. Bowen
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
The British Seaborne Empire
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Jeremy Black
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire