British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce
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ISBN-13:
9780333973745
Veröffentl:
2002
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.05.2002
Seiten:
229
Autor:
A. Neill
Gewicht:
485 g
Format:
225x141x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce examines how, between 1680 and 1800, British maritime travellers became both friends and foes of the commercial state. These nomadic characters report on remote parts of the globe in the twin contexts of an increasingly powerful imperial state and an emerging world economy. Examining voyage narratives by William Dampler, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, James Cook, and William Bligh, Neill demonstrates how the transformation of travellers from nomadic outlaws into civil subjects , and vice versa, takes place against the political-economic backdrop of commercial expansion.
An interdisciplinary study which examines both primary and secondary materials in political philosophy, economic history and cultural and literary studiesExamines voyage narratives by Dampier, Defoe, Swift, Smollett, James Cook and JohnsonMakes innovative connections between the nomadic characters of this period and the increasingly powerful nation state and emerging world economy
Introduction: Commerce, Society and the Sea Voyage Buccaneer Ethnography: Nature, Culture, and State in the Journal of William Dampier International Trade and Individual Enterprise: Defoe's Maritime Adventures Swift and the Geographers: Race, Space and Merchant Capital in Gulliver's Travels Roderick Random, Rasselas , and the Currents of Fancy South Seas Trade and the Character of Captains Conclusion: Globalization and Homelessness Bibliography
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