Britain's Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820
By John McAleer
Hardcover
$156.00
By John McAleer
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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 devel...






















