Here are the books mentioned in Andy’s talk, Rounding Cape Horn: How Rum Fueled a Seafaring Age, at the Smithsonian Associates program June 23rd, 2016.
The Empire of Tea
Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane
The Overlook Press
ISBN 1590201752
Rivers of Gold
Hugh Thomas
ISBN 0375502041
Random House
The Peking Battles Cape Horn
Irving Johnson
ISBN 0930248066
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Roger Crowley
ISBN 0812994000
Random House
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
Judith A. Carney
ISBN 0674008340
Harvard University Press
Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora
Edda L. Fields-Black
ISBN 025301610X
Indiana University Press
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
Nicholas A.M. Rodger
ISBN 0393060500
W.W. Norton & Co.
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert
ISBN 0375713964
Vintage
Nelson’s Blood: The Story of Naval Rum
James Pack
ASIN B017MYK1UU
US Naval Institute Press
Feeding Nelson’s Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era
Janet MacDonald
ISBN 1848327471
Frontline Books
The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
Matthew Parker
ISBN 0802777988
Walker Books
Rum: A Global History
Richard Foss
ISBN 1861899262
Reaktion Books
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Miracle of the Age of Sail
Stephen R. Brown
ISBN 0887621309
Thomas Allen and Son
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Sidney W. Mintz
ISBN 0140092331
Penguin Books
The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C
Kenneth J. Carpenter
ISBN 0521347734
Cambridge University Press
Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire
Andrea Stuart
ISBN 0307474542
Vintage
Uncle Tom’s Cabin of Life Among the Lowly
Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN 0486440281
(Various)
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition
Charles Wilkes
ISBN 1330731581 (Classics Reprint)
Forgotten Books
A Treatise on the Scurvy in Three Parts
James Lind
ISBN 1170514081
Gale ECCO