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Britain's Maritime Empire - Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820 (Hardcover)
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Britain's Maritime Empire - Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820 (Hardcover)
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A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime
gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role
in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British
Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at
the centre of a maritime chain that connected seas and continents,
this gateway bridged the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which, with
its commercial links and strategic requirements, formed a global
web that reflected the development of the British Empire in the
period. The book examines how contemporaries perceived, understood
and represented this area; the ways in which it worked as an
alternative hub of empire, enabling the movement of people, goods,
and ideas, as well as facilitating information and intelligence
exchanges; and the networks of administration, security and control
that helped to cement British imperial power.
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