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Summary:

A history of the East India Company told through experiences of everyday life on the ocean: maritime travel, shipboard conditions, foreign encounters, islands and ports of call, the waters of the Atlantic itself. McAleer portrays these as essential to the understanding of the Company as an agent of globalisation in the early modern world.

Table of Contents:

• Intro
• Frontispiece
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction: 'A formidable undertaking': Travellers' Tales, Atlantic Voyages, and the Route to the East
• The Voyage South
• Fluid Histories: Historiographies of Oceans, Empire, and Travel
• Ships and Their Passengers
• 'Noting everything in writing': Sources and Methodology
• Conclusion
• 2. Embarking: 'An inhabitant of another world': Shipboard Spaces and Daily Life
• Shipboard Accommodation
• Domesticating the Voyage
• Food and Drink
• Illness, Disease, and Physical Danger
• Order and Discipline

• 3. Voyaging: 'My time hangs rather heavy on my hands': Passing the Time, Marking the Passage
• Homesickness and Boredom
• Writing the Voyage
• Reading the Voyage
• Collective Pastimes
• Rituals, Ceremonies, and Initiation Rites
• 4. Observing: 'The wonders of the boundless ocean': Sea, Sky, and the Living World
• Waves and Water, Sky and Clouds
• Experimenting
• More-than-Human World
• Collecting
• 5. Stopping Off: 'The salutary effects of the shore': Landfall, Way Stations, and Going Ashore
• 'The appearance of fable'
• Refuelling, Revictualling, and Recuperating
• Cultural Encounters
• Conclusion
• 6. Conclusion: Beyond the Cape
• Beyond the Cape
• Bibliography
• Index

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Author/Creator:

McAleer, John , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Atlantic voyages: the East India Company and the British route to the East in the age of sail [by McAleer, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Atlantic voyages [by McAleer, J.] (Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] — ISBN 9780192894748; LCCN 2022950604; OCLC Number 1355457264)

Subjects:

East India Company — History

East India Company — Travel — India

Ocean travel — History

Great Britain — Commerce — History

Great Britain — Foreign relations — History

Great Britain — Foreign economic relations — India

India — Foreign economic relations — Great Britain

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Academic, viewed July 26, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages)

Call Numbers:

DS465 .M33 2023eb

ISBNs:

9780192647603 (ePub)
0192647601 (ePub)
9780191915628 (PDF)
0191915629 (PDF)
9780192647597 (ebook)
0192647598 (ebook)
9780192894748 (hardcover) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1378708471