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I loved working on this book. The underlying history is one of my favorite things to describe to people, too - a tremendous example of how to take a literal world's worth of history over 100+ years and turn it into an engaging, readable narrative.

Listen to Boyd Cothran, co- author of THE EDWIN FOX: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914 discuss microhistory with ABC Radio National www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Micro history and the Edwin Fox - ABC listenwww.abc.net.au What is micro history and what can an unremarkable cargo ship from the 19th century tell us about the foundations of our modern age. Boyd Cothran: Associate professor of History, York University, Tor...