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Winter Across Oceans

Winter Across Oceans

By Brooks, Eric

Published by epubli

English 2026
eBook

About this book

A frozen cargo crossing tropical seas reshaped global commerce long before refrigeration existed. In nineteenth century India, blocks of New England ice became symbols of status, empire, and industrial ambition. Frederic Tudor, later called the Ice King, built a fragile business model from climate itself. Harvested from frozen American lakes, packed in sawdust, and transported through dangerous Atlantic routes, ice became one of the earliest examples of a truly global cold supply chain. Merchant ledgers, shipping manifests, and colonial newspapers reveal how Boston entrepreneurs transformed winter into profit while British colonial ports in Calcutta and the Caribbean adapted urban life around imported cold. The book traces maritime logistics, insurance risks, dockyard labor, and consumer culture surrounding the nineteenth century ice trade. It also follows the rise of commercial preservation before electric refrigeration changed world industry forever. Behind the spectacle of ice arriving in tropical harbors stood a deeper story about industrial capitalism, environmental dependence, and imperial trade routes connecting distant societies through fragile technology.

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