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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Foreword xi
5. Abbreviations xii
6. 1 Introduction. Imperial seas: cultural exchange and commerce in the British Empire, 1780–1900 1
7. 2 From slaves to palm oil: Afro-European commercial relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1741–1841 13
8. 3 ‘Pirate water’: sailing to Belize in the mahogany trade 30
9. 4 Cape to Siberia: the Indian Ocean and China Sea trade in equids 48
10. 5 Aden, British India and the development of steam power in the Red Sea, 1825–1839 68
11. 6 The heroic age of the tin can: technology and ideology in British Arctic exploration, 1818–1835 84
12. 7 The proliferation and diffusion of steamship technology and the beginnings of ‘new imperialism’ 100
13. 8 Lakes, rivers and oceans: technology, ethnicity and the shipping of empire in the late nineteenth century 111
14. 9 Making imperial space: settlement, surveying and trade in northern Australia in the nineteenth century 128
15. 10 Hydrography, technology, coercion: mapping the sea in Southeast Asian imperialism, 1850–1900 142
16. 11 Pains, perils and pastimes: emigrant voyages in the nineteenth century 159
17. 12 Ordering Shanghai: policing a treaty port, 1854–1900 173
18. 13 Toward a people’s history of the sea 195
19. Select bibliography 207
20. Index 223