John
McAleer is Lecturer in History at
the University of Southampton. His research focuses on the British encounter
and engagement with the wider world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
situating the history of empire in its global and maritime contexts. He was
previously Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime
Museum, Greenwich. He is the author of Britains
Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean,
17631820.
