{"product_id":"a-cultural-history-of-the-sea-in-the-age-of-empire-9781350451285","title":"A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the 19th century, maritime globalization  expanded at a hitherto unimaginable pace,  transforming transport and communications  over the seas into oceanic networks at a  planetary scale. These networks shaped culture  in its most expansive sense, affecting seafaring,  warfare, empire, commerce, communications,  passenger travel, leisure and science. Authors  recover the sea experience of people and  groups entangled with and yet neglected in an  earlier generation of maritime history focused  on conquest, empire, and knowledge. Thus,  across a century when Britannia nominally  ruled the waves, military control emerges as  both opportunistic, harboring slavers, as well  as partial, giving agency to mutineers and  enslaved crew members, including on the  Royal Navy's own fleet; the wreck of Arctic exploring voyages such as the Erebus and the Terror  takes readers to PanInuit exploration over sea ice around the Arctic circle; colonial and mercantile  transport in the Indian Ocea\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371848835415,"sku":"9781350451285","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350451285.jpg?v=1730154799","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-cultural-history-of-the-sea-in-the-age-of-empire-9781350451285","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}