The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh Quotes

“Strange, awkwardly written, and even shocking, it broke new ground in more than geographical and observational terms.”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

“In 1784, he will also order his corsairs to capture a US merchant ship, the Betsey. Once they are taken hostage, the Sultan uses the members of the Betsey’s crew as bargaining tools, and in 1786 the US Congress agrees to a treaty establishing full diplomatic relations with Morocco.49 There are clear and significant”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

“agrees to establish a proper Consul in Morocco.47 For Consul, read commerce. Sidi Muhammad has perceived that, in order to consolidate his own authority and to restore Morocco’s viability as a stable and prosperous polity, any suspicion of the non-Muslim world must be balanced by more normalized relations and positive engagement based on trade. He may conceivably aspire to be Caliph of the West, and he certainly wants to forge closer alliances with fellow Muslim rulers. But he also wishes to foster connections with other parts of the world in order to develop his country’s commerce and thereby increase his own revenue.”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

“Now that war was spilling over into different continents, the resulting dispersal of Britain’s naval resources left traditional European frontier sites like Menorca more exposed and potentially vulnerable.”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

“though, which emerge most sharply from this incident. The workmen’s resentment at Milbourne’s efforts to add some distinction and ornament to his family’s stark lodgings (and perhaps also”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

“He worked as one of the two servants allowed Milbourne in his capacity as ship’s carpenter: ‘servant’ in this context meaning an apprentice under training. Both”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

“By Jamaican standards, this level of slave-ownership on the part of a skilled craftsman was not unusual. The 157 inhabitants of Port Royal who were registered as slave-owners in 1738 laid claim on average to nine slaves apiece.22 But to Milbourne Marsh, an English incomer with no property beyond the contents of his sea-chest, the sight of this level of affluence in a fellow shipwright must have been startling, and it is unlikely that it was merely physical and emotional attraction that drew him initially to James Evans’ wife.”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

“As this suggests, Jamaica was at once brutally divided by racial difference and violence, and in some respects also a cosmopolitan, even tolerant environment.”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

“British merchants became notably more aggressive and successful in exploring extra-European markets, and Crisp’s progress, from a concentration on Mediterranean commerce to involvement in ever more distant seas, perfectly exemplified this trend.”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

“There is traditional mosaic work and glazed tiles in geometric designs, but there is also a smattering of Western consumer goods: ‘several fine European pier glasses with very handsome hangings’ in the royal apartments, for instance, and ‘in each room is a fine gilt branch for wax candles’.60 This is not a straightforward act of emulation of Western tastes, however. In Islamic tradition, light possesses a divine quality as the visible manifestation of God’s presence and reason. As he consistently tries to do, Sidi Muhammad has borrowed from the West with”
― Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History