Episode 099: Mark Hanna, Pirates & Pirate Nests in the British Atlantic World.Episode 015: Joyce Chaplin, Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit.Episode 012: Dane Morrison, The South Seas & the Discovery of American Identity.Episode 008: Gregory O’Malley, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807.Subscribe and help us bring history right to your ears! Complementary Episodes Join Us!! Become a Ben Franklin’s World Member. Robert Parkinson’s Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence.David Hancock, Ocean of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade & Taste. Daniel Vickers, Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850.John McCusker, The Economy of British-America, 1607-1789.The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic.Links to People, Places, and Publications Importance of 18th-century British merchant ships to early American history. Sailor tolerance for risk on the 18th-century Atlantic.18th-century insurance policies for ships & cargoes.Economics of shipbuilding and ship ownership in the 18th century.How to extend or decrease the life expectancy of a merchant ship.Options in purchasing a merchant vessel.How British merchant ships compare with British East Indiamen.Building a British merchant ship in the 18th century.English innovations on Dutch sailing technology.The Dutch Empire and merchant ship technology in the 17th century. He joins us to explore the technology of the eighteenth-century British merchant ship and the business of transatlantic shipping.ĭuring our exploration, Phillip reveals details about the eighteenth-century British merchant ship and its technological development Information about ship building and what ship buyers looked for when purchasing a new vessel And, how and why shipowners undertook the important work of risk mitigation when it came to conducting their transatlantic business. Phillip Reid, author of The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, is an expert in the history of the British Atlantic World and maritime technology. It is a show for people who love history and for those who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world.īen Franklin’s World is a production of the Omohundro Institute. About the Showīen Franklin’s World is a podcast about early American history. Phillip Reid, a historian of the Atlantic World and maritime technology and author of The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, joins us to explore the eighteenth-century British merchant ship and the business of transatlantic shipping. What do we know about the ships that made these transatlantic voyages and connected the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world through trade, people, and information? By the eighteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean had become a busy highway of ships crisscrossing its waters.
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