Atlantic voyages : the East India Company and the British route to the East in the age of sail

Atlantic voyages : the East India Company and the British route to the East in the age of sail / John McAleer.

A history of the East India Company told through experiences of everyday life on the ocean: maritime travel, shipboard conditions, foreign encounters, islands and ports of call, the waters of the Atlantic itself. McAleer portrays these as essential to the understanding of the Company as an agent of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McAleer, John (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
East India Company > History.
East India Company > Travel > India.
East India Company
Ocean travel > History.
Commerce
Diplomatic relations
Business & Management.
Industry.
Great Britain > Commerce > History.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > History.
Great Britain > Foreign economic relations > India.
India > Foreign economic relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Frontispiece
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction: 'A formidable undertaking': Travellers' Tales, Atlantic Voyages, and the Route to the East
  • The Voyage South
  • Fluid Histories: Historiographies of Oceans, Empire, and Travel
  • Ships and Their Passengers
  • 'Noting everything in writing': Sources and Methodology
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Embarking: 'An inhabitant of another world': Shipboard Spaces and Daily Life
  • Shipboard Accommodation
  • Domesticating the Voyage
  • Food and Drink
  • Illness, Disease, and Physical Danger
  • Order and Discipline
  • 3. Voyaging: 'My time hangs rather heavy on my hands': Passing the Time, Marking the Passage
  • Homesickness and Boredom
  • Writing the Voyage
  • Reading the Voyage
  • Collective Pastimes
  • Rituals, Ceremonies, and Initiation Rites
  • 4. Observing: 'The wonders of the boundless ocean': Sea, Sky, and the Living World
  • Waves and Water, Sky and Clouds
  • Experimenting
  • More-than-Human World
  • Collecting
  • 5. Stopping Off: 'The salutary effects of the shore': Landfall, Way Stations, and Going Ashore
  • 'The appearance of fable'
  • Refuelling, Revictualling, and Recuperating
  • Cultural Encounters
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Conclusion: Beyond the Cape
  • Beyond the Cape
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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