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This book presents twelve essays by historian David M. Williams, in order to pay tribute to his career. The essays stretch from 1807 through to the end of the nineteenth century, and address both economic and social themes. Topics include maritime trade, deployment of merchant ships, the state regulations concerning shipping, shipwrecks and loss of life, passenger cargoes, slavery, cotton, timber and coffee trades, and the working conditions of seamen over the course of the century. The plight of the maritime labourer is at the core of this collection. The essays primarily focus on British shipping, and firmly places it within an international context. The book is introduced by Lars U. Scholl, followed by two tributes to Williams' career, one by Peter N. Davies, the other by Lewis R. Fischer. Scholl concludes the volume with a thorough bibliography of Williams' maritime writings: books, chapters, and articles.

Merchant marine --- Merchants --- History. --- Businesspeople --- Commerce

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Miller, Matheus --- Augsburg --- Merchants --- Germany --- Augsburg (Germany) --- Biography --- History --- 17th century

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Arabs --- Merchants --- Tippu Tip, --- Africa, Central --- Africa, Central --- Zanzibar --- History. --- History

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"A War of Words in the Discourse of Trade: The Rhetorical Constitution of Metaphor by Philip Eubanks challenges traditional accounts of metaphor and significantly expands theories of "conceptual" metaphor by examining Trade Is War as it occurs in concrete discourse." "Although scholarly interest in metaphor as an aesthetic, linguistic, and cognitive phenomenon has long endured, Eubanks is among the first to consider metaphor in its sociohistorical role. Questioning major accounts of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, Eubanks argues that metaphor is not just influenced by but actually is constituted by its concrete operation." "Eubanks focuses on the conceptual metaphor Trade Is War - a metaphor found wherever people discuss business and commerce - to develop his rhetorical model of metaphor. He analyzes Trade Is War as it occurs in the print news media, on television discussion shows, in academic works, in popular nonfiction and novels, in historic economic commentary, and in focus group talk."--Jacket.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Metaphor. --- Commerce --- Metaphor --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants

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Merchants --- Businesspeople --- History --- Borno State (Nigeria) --- Borno, Nigeria --- Bornu (Nigeria) --- Yobe State (Nigeria) --- Commerce --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Borno (State) (Nigeria) --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- Colonization