John Mcaleer: 3 books
Britain's Maritime Empire
Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763–1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
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...
by John McAleer
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the politics of commercial protection, and the development of national and imperial identities – crucial...
Picturing India
People, Places, and the World of the East India Company
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the increasingly important role played by the Company in Indian life. And they mirror significant...