Mobility was central to imperialism, from the human movements entailed in exploration, travel and migration to the information, communications and commodity flows vital to trade, science, governance and military power. While historians have written on exploration, commerce, imperial transport and communications networks, and the movements of slaves, soldiers and scientists, few have reflected upon the social, cultural, economic and political significance of mobile practices, subje...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Empire and mobility: an introduction – David Lambert and Peter Merriman
2 Military print culture, knowledge and terrain: knowledge mobility and eighteenth-ce...
Über den Autor
David Lambert is Professor of History at the University of Warwick
Peter Merriman is Professor of Geography at Aberystwyth University