Smithsonian Cape Talk

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