Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Now Is Come a Darker Day’: Britain, Venice and the Meaning of Sea Power

Chapter 3 After Emancipation: Slavery, Freedom and the Victorian Empire

Chapter 4 Cultural, Intellectual and Religious Networks: Britain’s Maritime Exchanges in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 5 ‘We Never Make Mistakes’: Constructing the Empire of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company

Chapter 6 Crossing the Seas: Problems and Possibilities for Queen Victoria’s Indian Subjects

Chapter 8 Insularity and Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter 9 The Victorian Maritime Empire in Its Global Context