Maritime Empires (EPDF) von David Killingray

Britain's empire was sustained by shipping. These studies are concerned with a range of enterprises, both home and colonial, in which shipping was involved, relating to goods, people, ideas.

Introduction
From Slaves to Palm Oil: Afro-European Commercial Relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1741-1841 - Paul Lovejoy
`Pirate Water': Sailing to Belize in the Mahogany Trade - Daniel Finamore
Cape to Siberia: the Indian Ocean and China Sea Trade in Equids - William G Clarence-Smith
Aden, British India and the Development of Steam Power in the Red Sea, 1825-1839 - R J Blyth
The Heroic Age of the Tin Can: Technology and Ideology in British Arctic Exploration, 1818-1835 - Carl Thompson
The Proliferation and Diffusion of Steamship Technology and the Beginnings of `New Imperialism' - Robert Kubicek
Lakes, Rivers and Oceans: Technology, Ethnicity and the Shipping of Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century - John Mackenzie
Making Imperial Space: Settlement, Surveying and Trade in Northern Australia in the Nineteenth Century - Jordan Goodman
Hydrography, Technology, Coercion: Mapping the Sea in South-East Asian Imperialism, 1850-1900 - Eric Tagliacozzo
Pains, Perils and Pastimes: Emigrant Voyages in the Nineteenth Century - Marjory Harper
Ordering Shanghai: Policing a Treaty Port, 1854-1900 - Robert Bickers
Towards a People's History of the Sea - Marcus Rediker