Amvik eBook Solutions

Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region th

A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a mari

This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empir

Between the end of the Seven Years war in 1763, and the abolition of slavery within its Empire in 1833, Britain's maritime engagement with the wider world was t

"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire