Flagships of imperialism: The P&O Company and the Politics of Empire from its origins to 1867
ISBN: 9781847791450
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Political Science;

The first scholarly monograph on the history of the P&O shipping company, which many would argue was the truly central and iconic shipping line of empire. It is also the first history of P&O to pay due attention to the political context - the politics of the British Empire - which shaped the company's development.

Freda Harcourt was until her retirement Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Sarah Palmer is Professor of Maritime History and Director of the Greenwich Maritime Institute, the University of Greenwich

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