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Through themed case studies—from Tangier and the sea to revolutions, war, and conquest—the work traces stories of constraint, cultural conflict, and humiliation. It connects personal captivity narratives to wider imperial expansion, showing how captivity influenced British perceptions, dependence, and historical writing.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTable of Contents  \nTitle Page  \nDedication  \nEpigraph  \nPraise  \nList of Illustrations  \nAcknowledgements  \nINTRODUCTION  \nPart One-MEDITERRANEAN Captives and Constraints  \nONE-Tangier  \nTWO-The Crescent and the Sea  \nTHREE-Telling the Tale  \nFOUR-Confronting Islam  \nPart Two-AMERICA Captives and Embarrassments  \nFIVE-Different Americans, Different Britons  \nSIX-War and a New World  \nSEVEN-Revolutions  \nPart Three-INDIA Captives and Conquest EIGHT-Another Passage to India  \nNINE-The Tiger and the Sword  \nTEN-Captives in Uniform  \nEPILOGUE-To Afghanistan and Beyond APPENDIX-The Captivity Archive  \nNOTES  \nAbout the Author  \nALSO BY LINDA COLLEY  \nCopyright Page  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIn memory of my mother Marjorie Colley, née Hughes 1920–1998  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n‘When the prison-doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.’Ho Chi Minh, Prison Diary (Hanoi, 1962)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAcclaim for Linda Colley’s  \nCAPTIVES  \n“Engaging, gracefully written. . . . Sharp-eyed. . . . There is marvelous detail on every page.” —The New York Times Book Review  \n“Captives is another important and beautifully written book by this firstrank British historian.” —The Irish Times  \n“A sort of White Teeth version of imperial history. . . . A completely original intelligence.” —Financial Times  \n“A brilliantly illuminating study by one of Britain’s most distinguished historians.” —New Statesman  \n“Consistently enlightening. . . . An insightful and stimulating book that presents history with a fresh perspective.” —BookPage  \n“Innovative. . . . Colley brings a contemporary edge to her writing. . . . [She is] one of the most interesting historians at work today.” —The Wilson Quarterly  \n“Colley’s fascinating book links captivity with imperial expansion and underscores the Britons’ ultimate dependence on loyal ‘natives.’ ” —The New York Review of Books  \n“Captives is an invitation to think again about an old story too often told in the same old way. . . . It is a book which should alter the way in which the history not only of the British, but of all the European empires is written.”  \n—London Review of Books  \n“Superb . . . coruscating.” —The Independent on Sunday (London)  \n“Abounds in fascinating human stories and constantly requires the reader toreconsider accepted dogma.” —The Daily Telegraph (London)  \n“Sublimely well written: cunningly paced, beguilingly fluent, deftly allusive, vividly evocative. It is a major contribution to understanding the paradox of the British: the weak who wangled the earth.” —Literary Review  \n“Linda Colley is a great storyteller and she breathes life into the manuscripts she has discovered by captives in the early days of the Empire.” —The Observer (London)  \n“Dexterous, wonderfully subtle.” —The Sunday Times (London)  \n“This fine, thought-provoking book—at once readable and educative—is crammed full of telling insights.” —The Sunday Telegraph (London)  \n“Stunningly revisionist. . . . Almost every page of Captives challenges a settled orthodoxy or opens up a fertile new field for research.” —History Today  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nList of Illustrations  \nThe illustrations in this book form an integral part of the text and have been captioned accordingly. Their full titles and provenance are as follows.  \nI am most grateful to the libraries, art galleries and private owners listed below for allowing me to reproduce images in their possession. Images with no provenance cited are from my own collection of prints, books and photographs.  \n1. Britain as global empire: a detail from an 1893 map (British Library, Maps, 17.c.13) .  \n2. The Peters World Map, © Akademische Verlagsanstalt, supplied by Oxford Cartographers.  \n3. The title page of Madagascar: or Robert Drury’s Journal, London, 1729 (Cambridge University Library) .  \n4. 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