The Trade Winds

The Trade Winds
Author: C.Northcote Parkinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136607501

First Published in 2005. The authors of this book have tried to portray, in outline, the background of trade against which the Navy of Nelson's time had to operate. The Tarde Winds is the title they have chosen and the book should serve to remind us of many physical facts which then dominated the strategy both of trade and war—the Trade Winds themselves being not the least of them.

Trade in the Eastern Seas, 1793-1813

Trade in the Eastern Seas, 1793-1813
Author: Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 1966
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 0714613487

First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850

Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850
Author: Luis J. Gordo Peláez
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2023-12-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1003822649

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space, and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level profits, and circulating raw materials and commodities in Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1500 to 1850. This book argues that histories of extraction remain incomplete without careful attention to the social, physical, and mental nexus that is architecture, just as architecture’s development in the last 500 years cannot be adequately comprehended without attention to empire, extraction, colonialism, and the rise of what Immanuel Wallerstein has called the world system. This world system was possible because of built environments that enabled resource extraction, transport of raw materials, circulation of commodities, and enactment of power relations in the struggle between capital and labor. Separated into three sections: Harvesting the Environment, Cultivating Profit, and Circulating Commodities: Networks and Infrastructures, this volume covers a wide range of geographies, from England to South America, from Africa to South Carolina. The book aims to decenter Eurocentric approaches to architectural history to expose the global circulation of ideas, things, commodities, and people that constituted the architecture of extraction in the Atlantic World. In focusing on extraction, we aim to recover histories of labor exploitation and racialized oppression of interest to the global community. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of architectural history, geography, urban and labor history, literary studies, historic preservation, and colonial studies.

Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery

Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery
Author: David Richardson
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1846313503

Newly available in paperback, this edition is an important volume of international significance, drawing together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field and edited by a team headed by the acclaimed historian David Richardson. The book sets Liverpool in the wider context of transatlantic slavery and addresses issues in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery, including African agency and trade experience. Emphasis is placed on the human characteristics and impacts of transatlantic slavery. It also opens up new areas of debate on Liverpool’s participation in the slave trade and helps to frame the research agenda for the future. ‘Anyone seeking a clear, balanced and thoughtful presentation of the issues surrounding one of the most shameful episodes of human history could not do better than to arm themselves with a copy of this absorbing and well-edited book.’ Urban History Journal ‘Undoubtedly of use to anyone who has more than a passing interest in the role the African slave trade played in developing one of the Atlantic World’s most prominent ports.’ Journal of African History