Britain's Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763–1820

John McAleer

doi:10.1017/9781316181362

A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain that connected seas and continents, this gateway bridged the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which, with its commercial links and strategic requirements, formed a global web that reflected the development of the British Empire in the period. The book examines how contemporaries perceived, understood and represented this area; the ways in which it worked as an alternative hub of empire, enabling the movement of people, goods, and ideas, as well as facilitating information and intelligence exchanges; and the networks of administration, security and control that helped to cement British imperial power.

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Britain's Maritime Empire

Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763–1820

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Britain’s Maritime Empire
pp i-ii

Britain’s Maritime Empire - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-ix

Abbreviations
pp x-xi

Map
pp xii-xii

1 - Introduction: ‘the master link of connection’
pp 1-37

2 - ‘The key to India’: consolidating the gateway to the East
pp 38-99

3 - ‘A sword in the hands’: European rivals, imperial designs, colonial problems
pp 100-150

4 - ‘A constant and unreserved correspondence’: networks of knowledge exchange
pp 151-190

5 - ‘The great outwork and bulwark of India’: troops, military manoeuvres and defending the eastern empire
pp 191-236

6 - Conclusions: ‘the connection between the settlements becomes more intimate’
pp 237-246

Bibliography
pp 247-269

Index
pp 270-277

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