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The taste of empire : how Britain's quest for food shaped the modern world
\"...in twenty meals, The taste of Empire tells the story of how the British created a global food trade that moved people and plants across countries...Taking us on a wide-ranging culinary journey from the American frontier to the Far East, from sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to present day celetrations of Thanksgiving, Lizzie Collingham uncovers the decisive role of the British Empire in shaping our modern diet.\"--Dust jacket.
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The Overseas Trade of British America
A sweeping history of early American trade and the
foundation of the American economy In a single, readily
digestible, coherent narrative, historian Thomas M. Truxes presents
the three hundred-year history of the overseas trade of British
America. Born from seeds planted in Tudor England in the sixteenth
century, Atlantic trade allowed the initial survival, economic
expansion, and later prosperity of British America, and brought
vastly different geographical regions, each with a distinctive
identity and economic structure, into a single fabric. Truxes shows
how colonial American prosperity was only possible because of the
labor of enslaved Africans, how the colonial economy became
dependent on free and open markets, and how the young United States
owed its survival in the struggle of the American Revolution to
Atlantic trade.
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Ascent and decline of native and colonial trading : tale of four Indian cities
\"Ascent and Decline of Native and Colonial Trading: Tale of Four Indian Cities presents a vivid picture of how the British political regime reorganized the structure of the Indian economy to suit its own objectives. While doing so, the regime also affected the geographical distribution of economic activities. This resulted in the decline of native cities and prosperity of colonial cities. To reveal how the British colonial power brought about such changes in the Indian subcontinent, the book narrates the account of two pairs of native and colonial cities--Dacca and Calcutta from the eastern coast; and Surat and Bombay from the western coast. These were major centres of manufacturing, shared a common history and experienced the consequences of three different political dispensations--the Mughal Empire, the East India Company and the British Raj. It describes in detail how mutually beneficial relationships and interregional variations between these cities developed because of colonial restructuring. Due to its extensive coverage and analysis of the underlying phenomena, this book will prove indispensable for developing a deep understanding of Indian colonial and economic history.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Englishmen at Sea
A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account
of England's early maritime empire Drawing on a wealth of
understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor
conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire.
Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young
men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a
reputation for ruthlessness. Peace in 1603 forced these predatory
seamen to adapt to a radically changed world, one in which they
were expected to risk their lives for merchants' gain, not plunder.
Merchant trading companies expected sailors to relinquish their
unruly ways and to help convince overseas rulers and trading
partners that the English were a courteous and trustworthy
\"nation.\" Some sailors rebelled, becoming pirates and renegades;
others demanded and often received concessions and shares in new
trading opportunities. Treated gently by a state that was anxious
to promote seafaring in order to man the navy, these determined
sailors helped to keep the sea a viable and attractive trade for
Englishmen.
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The capital and the colonies : London and the Atlantic economy, 1660-1700
\"Between 1660 and 1700, London established itself as the capital and commercial hub of a thriving Atlantic empire, accounting for three quarters of the nation's colonial trade, and playing a vital coordinating role in an increasingly coherent Atlantic system. Nuala Zahedieh's unique study provides the first detailed picture of how that mercantile system was made to work. By identifying the leading colonial merchants, she shows through their collective experiences how London developed the capabilities to compete with its continental rivals and ensure compliance with the Navigation Acts. Zahedieh shows that in making mercantilism work, Londoners helped to create the conditions which underpinned the long period of structural change and economic growth which culminated in the Industrial Revolution\"--Provided by publisher.
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Connecting histories in Afghanistan : market relations and state formation on a colonial frontier
Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these military victories, colonial influences still made their way into Afghanistan. Looking closely at commerce in and between Kabul, Peshawar, and Qandahar, this book reveals how local Afghan nomads and Indian bankers responded to state policies on trade.
British colonial political emphasis on Kabul had significant commercial consequences both for the city itself and for the cities it displaced to become the capital of the emerging Afghan state. Focused on routing between three key markets, Connecting Histories in Afghanistan challenges the overtly political tone and Orientalist bias that characterize classic colonialism and much contemporary discussion of Afghanistan.
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Connecting Histories in Afghanistan
This work examines the British Indian colonial impact on the economy and society of nineteenth-century Afghanistan, with particular interest in the relationships among Kabul, Qandahar, and Peshawar.
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New world, inc. : the making of America by England's merchant adventurers
Describes how English merchant adventurers, in search of new markets and trading partners, were the earliest founders of America, with profit as their primary motive.
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Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System
How the suppression of the slave trade and the \"disposal\"
of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern
humanitarianism Between 1808 and 1867, the British navy's
Atlantic squadrons seized nearly two thousand slave ships,
\"re‑capturing\" almost two hundred thousand enslaved people and
resettling them as liberated Africans across sites from Sierra
Leone and Cape Colony to the West Indies, Brazil, Cuba, and beyond.
In this wide-ranging study, Maeve Ryan explores the set of imperial
experiments that took shape as British authorities sought to order
and instrumentalise the liberated Africans, and examines the dual
discourses of compassion and control that evolved around a people
expected to repay the debt of their salvation. Ryan traces the
ideas that shaped \"disposal\" policies towards liberated Africans,
and the forms of resistance and accommodation that characterized
their responses. This book demonstrates the impact of
interventionist experiments on the lives of the liberated people,
on the evolution of a British antislavery \"world system,\" and on
the emergence of modern understandings of refuge, asylum, and
humanitarian governance.
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