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By the eighteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean had become a busy highway of ships crisscrossing its waters.
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?
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.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/309
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By the eighteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean had become a busy highway of ships crisscrossing its waters.
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?
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.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/309
Complementary Episodes
🎧 Episode 008: Gregory O’Malley, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
🎧 Episode 012: Dane Morrison, The South Seas & the Discovery of American Identity
🎧 Episode 015: Joyce Chaplin, Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
🎧 Episode 099: Mark Hanna, Pirates & Pirate Nests in the British Atlantic World
🎧 Episode 140: Tamara Thornton, Nathaniel Bowditch: 19th-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea
REQUEST A TOPIC
📨 Topic Request Form
WHEN YOU'RE READY
🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter
👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community
LISTEN 🎧
🍎 Apple Podcasts
💚 Spotify
🎶 Amazon Music
🛜 Pandora
CONNECT
🦋 Liz on Bluesky
👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn
🛜 Liz’s Website
SAY THANKS
💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts
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