{"product_id":"the-edwin-fox-boyd-cothran-9781469676555","title":"The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914","description":"It 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Boyd Cothran, Adrian Shubert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469676559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469676555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.37h x 6.06w x 1.18d","brand":"Boyd Cothran","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44123158380799,"sku":"9781469676555","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49e85e33-b3af-4ff9-900f-49827187e404.jpg?v=1687429263","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-edwin-fox-boyd-cothran-9781469676555","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}