Book ID: CBB765969956

Eastward of Good Hope : Early America in a dangerous world (2021)

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Dane Anthony Morrison (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 2021
Language: English


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 314

Reexamining Yankee 'voyages of commerce and discovery' into distant seas in the decades after the War of Independence, this book reveals how 'news from the East' carried in ships logs and mariners' news reports, journals, and correspondence shaped Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites. Focusing on four representative arenas-the Ottoman Empire, China, India, and the Great South Sea-and drawing on recent scholarship in global ethnohistory, the author recounts how reports of cannibal encounters, shipboard massacres, shipwrecks, tropical fever, and other tragedies in distant seas led Americans to imagine each region as a distinct set of threats to their republic. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Bickers, Robert
Cohen, Mark R.
Ferng, Jennifer Hsiao-Mei
Harris, Ron
Ling-Yeong, Chin
Norwood, Dael
Journals
Business and Economic History On-Line
Business History Review
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Publishers
Brill
Princeton University Press
Cambridge University Press
Brepols
Johns Hopkins University Press
Ministerio de Defensa, Instituto de Historia y Cultura Naval
Concepts
Trade
Business history
Business and commerce
Merchants
Travel; exploration
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
People
Magellan, Ferdinand
Maimonides
Orchiston, Wayne
Zeng He
Elcano, Juan Sebastián
Penney, J. C. (James Cash)
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
16th century
18th century
21st century
Medieval
Places
Asia
Europe
United States
Great Britain
China
Venice (Italy)
Institutions
British East India Company
Dutch East India Company
Chance Brothers and Company
J.C. Penney Co.
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