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Description: 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 characterised 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 centre 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 characterised that empire.
Title: Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198847229
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 8/17/2021
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
Category: Colonialism & Imperialism
Description: 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 characterised 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 centre 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 characterised that empire.
Title: Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198847229
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 8/17/2021
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
Category: Colonialism & Imperialism
