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Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail (Hardcover)
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Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
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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.
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