edited by David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln and Nigel Rigby.24 cm.Introduction. Imperial seas : cultural exchange and commerce in the British Empire, 1780-1900 / David Killingray -- From slaves to palm oil : Afro-European commercial relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1741-1841 / Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- 'Pirate water' : sailing to Belize in the mahogany trade / Daniel Finamore -- Cape to Siberia : the Indian Ocean and China Sea trade in equids / William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- Aden, British India and the development of steam power in the Red Sea, 1825-1839 / Robert J. Blyth -- The heroic age of the tin can : technology and ideology in British Arctic exploration, 1818-1835 / Carl Thompson -- The proliferation and diffusion of steamship technology and the beginnings of 'new imperialism' / Robert Kubicek -- Lakes, rivers, and oceans : technology, ethnicity and the shipping of empire in the late nineteenth century / John M. MacKenzie -- Making imperial space : settlement, surveying and trade in northern Australia in the nineteenth century / Jordan Goodman -- Hydrography, technology, coercion : mapping the sea in Southeast Asian imperialism, 1850-1900 / Eric Tagliacozzo -- Pains, perils and pastimes : emigrant voyages in the nineteenth century / Marjory Harper -- Ordering Shanghai : policing a treaty port, 1854-1900 / Robert Bickers -- Toward a people's history of the sea / Marcus Rediker.