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Across the German sea : early modern Scottish connections with the wider Elbe-Weser region
In Across the German Sea: Early Modern Scottish Connections with the Wider Elbe-Weser Region Zickermann analyses the commercial, maritime and military relations between Scotland and cities located alongside the lower parts of the rivers Elbe and Weser.
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The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment
The most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation. Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, and charts the contemporary debates and tensions between Enlightenment thinkers that this idea raised. The book analyses the full range of literature on the subject, from key works like Adam Smith's ‘Wealth of Nations’, David Hume's ‘Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects’ and Adam Ferguson's ‘Essay on the History of Civil Society’ to lesser-known works such as Robert Wallace’s ‘Dissertation on Numbers of Mankind’.
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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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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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The Enlightenment and the book
The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.
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Historical Invasions of the Intertidal Zone of Atlantic North America Associated with Distinctive Patterns of Trade and Emigration
Early invasions of the North American shore occurred mainly via deposition of ballast rock, which effectively transported pieces of the intertidal zone across the Atlantic. From 1773-1861, > 880 European ships entered Pictou Harbor, Nova Scotia, as a result of emigration and trade from Europe. The rockweed Fucus serratus (1868) and the snail Littorina littorea (≈1840) were found in Pictou during this same period. With shipping records (a proxy for propagule pressure) to guide sampling, we used F. serratus as a model to examine the introductions because of its relatively low genetic diversity and dispersal capability. Microsatellite markers and assignment tests revealed 2 introductions of the rockweed into Nova Scotia: 1 from Galway (Ireland) to Pictou and the other from Greenock (Scotland) to western Cape Breton Island. To examine whether a high-diversity, high-dispersing species might have similar pathways of introduction, we analyzed L. littorea, using cytochrome b haplotypes. Eight of the 9 Pictou haplotypes were found in snails collected from Ireland and Scotland. Our results contribute to a broader understanding of marine communities, because these 2 conspicuous species are likely to be the tip of an \"invasion iceberg\" to the NW Atlantic from Great Britain and Ireland in the 19th Century.
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The Navigator
Captain John Anderson served in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as 'Pilot-Major' between 1640 and 1643. This was his fourth voyage to the Indies and the only one he chose to record. His log gives great insight into the subject of European travel in Asia in the Early Modern Period.
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Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth
Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan Commonwealth tells the story of English relations with Russia, from the ‘strange and wonderfull discoverie’ of the land and Elizabeth I’s correspondence with Ivan the Terrible, to the corruption of the Muscovy Company and the Elizabethan regime’s censorship of politically sensitive representations of Russia. Focusing on the life and works of Giles Fletcher, the elder, ambassador to Russia in 1588, this work explores two popular themes in Elizabethan history: exploration, travel and trade and late Elizabethan political culture. By analysing the pervasive languages of commonwealth, corruption and tyranny found in both the Muscovy Company accounts and in Fletcher’s writings on Russia, this monograph explores how Russia was a useful tool for Elizabethans to think with when they contemplated the nature of government and the changing face of monarchy in the late Elizabethan regime. It will appeal to academics and students of Elizabethan political culture and literary studies, as well as those of early modern travel and trade.
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\Scientific Whigs\? Scottish Historians on the French Revolution
Some aspects of Scottish Enlightenment thought did, of course, play a part in the British reception of the French Revolution, most notably the various elements of Scottish political economy that informed parts of both radical and loyalist arguments, and were used by moderate Whigs to formulate a new defense of the Constitution based upon the language of commerce.3 However, the debate surrounding the French Revolution can be considered from a different point of view: that of the philosophical historians themselves. [...]the progress of societies towards civil and political liberties was not seen as a continuous process, nor as a historical necessity.5 Their faith in commerce's ability to foster political progress in modern Europe was prudent, limited, and subject to conditions, although they all believed that the rise of commerce was linked to the generally high level of civil liberties enjoyed in Europe.6 They certainly did not believe that English liberties were \"bound\" to spread all over Europe.
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