The Edwin Fox | How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World, 1850–1914
Year: 2023 Language: English Author: Boyd Cothran, Adrian Shubert Genre: History Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Edition: October, 2023 ISBN: 9781469676555 Format: EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 423 (Print length) Description: It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. This fascinating work of global history offers a vividly detailed and engaging narrative of globalization writ small, viewed from the decks and holds of a single vessel. The Edwin Foxconnected the lives and histories of millions, though most never even saw it. Built in Calcutta in 1853, the Edwin Fox was chartered by the British navy as a troop transport during the Crimean War. In the following decades, it was sold, recommissioned, and refitted by an increasingly far-flung constellation of militaries and merchants. It sailed to exotic ports carrying luxury goods, mundane wares, and all kinds of people: not just soldiers and officials but indentured laborers brought from China to Cuba, convicts and settlers being transported from the British Empire to western Australia and New Zealand with dire consequences for local Indigenous peoples and others. But the power of this story rests in the everyday ways people, nations, economies, and ideas were knitted together in this foundational era of our modern world.
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The Edwin Fox | How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World, 1850–1914
Language: English
Author: Boyd Cothran, Adrian Shubert
Genre: History
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Edition: October, 2023
ISBN: 9781469676555
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 423 (Print length)
Description: It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. This fascinating work of global history offers a vividly detailed and engaging narrative of globalization writ small, viewed from the decks and holds of a single vessel. The Edwin Foxconnected the lives and histories of millions, though most never even saw it.
Built in Calcutta in 1853, the Edwin Fox was chartered by the British navy as a troop transport during the Crimean War. In the following decades, it was sold, recommissioned, and refitted by an increasingly far-flung constellation of militaries and merchants. It sailed to exotic ports carrying luxury goods, mundane wares, and all kinds of people: not just soldiers and officials but indentured laborers brought from China to Cuba, convicts and settlers being transported from the British Empire to western Australia and New Zealand with dire consequences for local Indigenous peoples and others. But the power of this story rests in the everyday ways people, nations, economies, and ideas were knitted together in this foundational era of our modern world.
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