Looking East: St Helena, the South Atlantic and Britain’s Indian Ocean world

• Published in: Atlantic Studies
• Main Author: McAleer, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Pacific; Indian; Tristan; St. Helena; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/385697/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/385697/1/McAleer_Atlantic%2520Studies_Looking%2520East.pdf

The British interest and presence in the South Atlantic Ocean and in South America represent, in the words of Eliga Gould, the kind of “entangled histories” increasingly recognised and studied by scholars of imperial, colonial and maritime history. From the beginning of the eighteenth century, the r...