In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600—1800, Phillip Reid refutes the long-held assumption that merchant ship technology in the British Atlantic d

The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English history—was a time of profound global

Based on thesis--Harvard University. Includes bibliographical references.

Studies of the British Industrial Revolution and of the Victorian period of economic and social development have until very recently concentrated on British ind

At one time British ships carried half of the world's trade, transporting every conceivable type of freight from and to all four corners of the globe – and in