Authors Biography
John McAleer
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 Britainยs Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763ย1820.