John Mc Aleer is lecturer in history at the University of Southampton. He was previously curator of imperial and maritime history at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He is the author of Britain’s Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean 1763–1820.
11 Ebooks by John McAleer
John McAleer: Picturing India
The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company …
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€43.99
John McAleer: The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820
This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the …
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€117.69
Sarah Longair & John McAleer: Curating empire
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curat …
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€23.99
John McAleer & John M. MacKenzie: Exhibiting the Empire
Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products – from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and ‘popular’ texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, e …
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€37.99
John McAleer: Representing Africa
Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain’s maritime and imperial stories: it was one of the most intricate pieces in the British imperial strategic jigsaw, and representations of …
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€129.99
Douglas Hamilton & John McAleer: Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail
Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the …
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€67.38
Douglas Hamilton & John McAleer: Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail
Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the …
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€67.29
John McAleer: Atlantic Voyages
As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie’s excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable. Mackrabie’s journey was conducted under the …
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€86.07
John McAleer: Atlantic Voyages
As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie’s excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable. Mackrabie’s journey was conducted under the …
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€86.07
