James W Frey
Biographic Data
| ID | 5642020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James W Frey |
| GIVEN NAMES | James W |
| FAMILY NAME | Frey |
| SIGNATURE | FREY J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Global Moment
The nearly simultaneous opening of the Suez Canal and the Pacific Railroad, in 1869, has long been hailed as a watershed in the rise of global transport infrastructure. However, these long‐awaited
Lascars, the Thames Police Court and the Old Bailey
Lascars, or Asian sailors, were no strangers to legal entanglements in London, where thousands of them were stranded in the early nineteenth century. However, in the 1850s, the lascar crews of five ships prosecuted European officers and seamen for crimes committed at sea. This study draws upon documentation for these cases at every step of the legal process, exploring how lascars used London's mid-Victorian criminal justice system, and how instit…
Getting Away with Murder
In 1802, several “country ships” arrived in London from Bengal, their lascar crews having suffered severe casualties due to fatigue, exposure, and starvation. Aboard the Union , the officers’ treatment of the crew was so bad that the lascars and a sympathetic English sailor alerted the East India Company. Their testimony, recorded by the Company's Committee of Shipping, provides new insights into lascar living and working conditions – in particul…
Prickly Pears and Pagodas
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the East India Company attempted to replicate the production of Mexican cochineal in southern India and Bengal. Studies of early colonial agri
The Indian Saltpeter Trade, the Military Revolution, and the Rise of Britain as a Global Superpower
Notes1. This article presents research conducted in 1995–1997, funded in part by the History Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The original version of this article first was presented at the Conference on Indian Military History at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, in Britain, in the summer of 1997, under my former name, James W. Hoover. Due to the subsequent publication of considerably more research, that article has been s…
The Indian Saltpeter Trade, the Military Revolution, and the Rise of Britain as a Global Superpower
Notes1. This article presents research conducted in 1995–1997, funded in part by the History Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The original version of this article first was presented at the Conference on Indian Military History at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, in Britain, in the summer of 1997, under my former name, James W. Hoover. Due to the subsequent publication of considerably more research, that article has been s…
Lascars, the Thames Police Court and the Old Bailey
Lascars, or Asian sailors, were no strangers to legal entanglements in London, where thousands of them were stranded in the early nineteenth century. However, in the 1850s, the lascar crews of five ships prosecuted European officers and seamen for crimes committed at sea. This study draws upon documentation for these cases at every step of the legal process, exploring how lascars used London's mid-Victorian criminal justice system, and how instit…
Getting Away with Murder
In 1802, several “country ships” arrived in London from Bengal, their lascar crews having suffered severe casualties due to fatigue, exposure, and starvation. Aboard the Union , the officers’ treatment of the crew was so bad that the lascars and a sympathetic English sailor alerted the East India Company. Their testimony, recorded by the Company's Committee of Shipping, provides new insights into lascar living and working conditions – in particul…
The Indian Saltpeter Trade, the Military Revolution, and the Rise of Britain as a Global Superpower
Notes1. This article presents research conducted in 1995–1997, funded in part by the History Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The original version of this article first was presented at the Conference on Indian Military History at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, in Britain, in the summer of 1997, under my former name, James W. Hoover. Due to the subsequent publication of considerably more research, that article has been s…
Prickly Pears and Pagodas
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the East India Company attempted to replicate the production of Mexican cochineal in southern India and Bengal. Studies of early colonial agri
Lascars, the Thames Police Court and the Old Bailey
Lascars, or Asian sailors, were no strangers to legal entanglements in London, where thousands of them were stranded in the early nineteenth century. However, in the 1850s, the lascar crews of five ships prosecuted European officers and seamen for crimes committed at sea. This study draws upon documentation for these cases at every step of the legal process, exploring how lascars used London's mid-Victorian criminal justice system, and how instit…
Getting Away with Murder
In 1802, several “country ships” arrived in London from Bengal, their lascar crews having suffered severe casualties due to fatigue, exposure, and starvation. Aboard the Union , the officers’ treatment of the crew was so bad that the lascars and a sympathetic English sailor alerted the East India Company. Their testimony, recorded by the Company's Committee of Shipping, provides new insights into lascar living and working conditions – in particul…
The Global Moment
The nearly simultaneous opening of the Suez Canal and the Pacific Railroad, in 1869, has long been hailed as a watershed in the rise of global transport infrastructure. However, these long‐awaited
History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)