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The Edwin Fox
Boyd Cothran
Adrian Shubert
其他書名
How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850–1914
出版
UNC Press Books
, 2023-10-17
主題
History / World
Political Science / Globalization
History / Maritime History & Piracy
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration
ISBN
1469676567
9781469676562
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_OS3EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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 Fox
connected 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.