Contents 6
List of Illustrations 8
Acknowledgements 10
1 Introduction: Commerce, Society and the Sea Voyage 12
Travel, Science and the State 15
Government, Manners and the Social Knowledge of Travellers 24
Mercantilism and Global Commerce 29
Outline of the Argument 33
2 Buccaneer Ethnography: Nature, Culture and the State in the Journals of William Dampier 42
Science and Statecraft 42
Beyond the Line: Stateless Outlaws or English Subjects? 47
Piracy and Ethnography 51
Discovery and Trade in the East Indies and New Holland 56
3 International Trade and Individual Enterprise: Defoe\u2019s Maritime Adventurers 63
Crusoe\u2019s Children: Orphans, Cannibals and Colonial Rule 66
Crusoe\u2019s Farther Adventures: The Nature of Trade and the Law of Nations 76
Crime, Vagrancy and Trade in Captain Singleton 87
4 Swift and the Geographers: Race, Space and Merchant Capital in Gulliver\u2019s Travels 94
Geography, Merchant Capital and the State 96
Early Eighteenth-Century Geography: Space, Peoples and the Global Marketplace 101
Geography and Monstrosity in Gulliver\u2019s Travels 115
5 Roderick Random, Rasselas and the Currents of Fancy 131
Patriotism and the Picaresque 132
Rasselas and Cosmopolitanism 147
6 South Seas Trade and the Character of Captains 160
Sympathy, Commerce and Character 163
Captaincy and Humanity 169
Mutiny on the Bounty 180
7 Conclusion: Global Commerce and Homelessness 191
Notes 196
References 220
Index 233
A 233
B 233
C 233
D 234
E 234
F 235
G 235
H 235
I 235
J 236
K 236
L 236
M 236
N 237
O 237
P 237
Q 238
R 238
S 238
T 239
U 240
V 240
W 240
Y 240
Z 240