{"product_id":"the-edwin-fox-how-an-ordinary-sailing-ship-connected-the-world-in-the-age-of-globalization-1850-1914-hardcover","title":"The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBoyd Cothran\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdrian Shubert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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 \u003ci\u003eEdwin Fox\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEdwin Fox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003econnected the lives and histories of millions, though most never even saw it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilt in Calcutta in 1853, the \u003ci\u003eEdwin Fox\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoyd Cothran is associate professor of history at York University.\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Shubert is professor emeritus of history at York University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 9.37 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776597590304,"sku":"9781469676555","price":37.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/118c5cd58437dae46fc05fc672c5b33e.webp?v=1780482006","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-edwin-fox-how-an-ordinary-sailing-ship-connected-the-world-in-the-age-of-globalization-1850-1914-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}