Author: Edward BARLOW (Seaman.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Barlow's Journal of His Life at Sea in King's Ships, East & West Indiamen & Other Merchantmen from 1659 to 1703. Transcribed from the Original Manuscript by Basil Lubbock. With 13 Coloured Illustrations and 43 Coastline Drawings
Author: Edward BARLOW (Seaman.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Barlow's Journal
Author: Edward BarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
The History, Topography, and Antiquities of Highgate, in the County of Middlesex; With Notes on the Surrounding Neighbourhood of Hornsey, Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Etc
Author: John H of Highgate LloydPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017733983
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Between Monopoly and Free Trade
Author: Emily EriksonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400850339
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes, and ports and organizational context, Emily Erikson demonstrates why the English East India Company was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why England experienced rapid economic development and how the relationship between Europe and Asia shifted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Though the Company held a monopoly on English overseas trade to Asia, the Court of Directors extended the right to trade in Asia to their employees, creating an unusual situation in which employees worked both for themselves and for the Company as overseas merchants. Building on the organizational infrastructure of the Company and the sophisticated commercial institutions of the markets of the East, employees constructed a cohesive internal network of peer communications that directed English trading ships during their voyages. This network integrated Company operations, encouraged innovation, and increased the Company’s flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness to local circumstance. Between Monopoly and Free Trade highlights the dynamic potential of social networks in the early modern era.
St. Helena, 1502-1938
Author: Philip GossePublisher:
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Category : Saint Helena
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A history of St Helena, which is an account of Britain's most remote and second oldest colony. Once the hub of South Atlantic trade routes and the vital ocean oasis for homeward-bound East Indiamen, its history, punctuated by Napoleon's brief exile, is a saga of fortitudes, follies and frustrations.
The Duel on the Beach
Author: Rafael SabatiniPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"The Duel on the Beach" is a seafaring adventure novel by the famed Anglo-Italian author Rafael Sabatini. Like the author's earlier book 'Captain Blood', it focuses on piracy in the seventeenth century Caribbean. When Major Sands left Barbados after the death of the governor, Sir John Harradine, he had every reason to congratulate himself that the fortune which he had gone overseas to seek was at last within his reach. For homing with him on the fine ship Centaur was the late governor's daughter, sole heiress to the considerable wealth which Sir John had amassed during his term of office. The long voyage before them with its constant association must afford him opportunities of contriving that the lady and her fortune should be contracted to him by the time they reached Plymouth. But when a French naval officer Monsieur de Bernis takes an interest in the young lady, a collision between the two men is inevitable...
Barlow's Journal of His Life at Sea in King's Ship
Author: Edward BarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
1677-1703
Author: Edward BarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
To Have and to Hold
Author: Mary, JohnstonPublisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 1773130412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
To Have and to Hold (1899) is a novel by American author Mary Johnston. It was the bestselling novel in the United States in the following year (1900). To Have and to Hold is the story of an English soldier, Ralph Percy, turned Virginian explorer iIPn colonial Jamestown. Ralph buys a wife for himself - a girl named Jocelyn Leigh - little knowing that she is the escaping ward of King James I, fleeing a forced marriage to Lord Carnal. Jocelyn hardly loves Ralph - indeed, she seems to abhor him. Carnal, Jocelyn's husband-to-be, eventually comes to Jamestown, unaware that Ralph Percy and Jocelyn Leigh are man and wife. Lord Carnal attempts to kidnap Jocelyn several times and eventually follows Ralph, Jocelyn, and their two companions - Jeremy Sparrow, the Separatist minister, and Diccon, Ralph's servant - as they escape from the King's orders to arrest Ralph and carry Jocelyn back to England. The boat they are in, however, crashes on a desert island, but they are accosted by pirates, who, after a short struggle, agree to take Ralph as their captain, after he pretends to be the pirate "Kirby". The pirates gleefully play on with Ralph's masquerade, until he refuses to allow them to rape and pillage those aboard Spanish ships. The play is up when the pirates see an English ship off the coast of Florida. Ralph refuses to fire upon it, knowing it carries the new Virginian governor, Sir Francis Wyatt, but the pirates open fire, and Jeremy Sparrow, before the English ship can be destroyed, purposefully crashes the ship into a reef. The pirates are all killed, but the Englishmen (and woman) are rescued by the Governor's ship.
Author: Edward Barlow