The Origins of Empire British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

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ISBN: 9780199246762

ISBN-10: 0199246769

ISBN-13: 9780199246762

Edition: 2001

Authors: Nicholas Canny, Wm Roger Louis, Wm Roger Louis

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Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on every part of the world that was substantially affected by British colonial activity. As late as 1630, involvement with regions beyond the traditional confines of Europe was still tentative; by 1690 it had

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List price: $78.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 553
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.144



List of Maps


List of Figures


List of Tables


List of Contributors


Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources



The Origins of Empire: An Introduction




The Struggle for Legitimacy and the Image of Empire in the Atlantic to c.1700




War, Politics, and Colonization, 1558-1625




Guns and Sails in the First Phase of English Colonization, 1500-1650




Literature and Empire




'Civilizinge of those rude partes': Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580s-1640s




England's New World and the Old, 1480s-1630s




Tobacco Colonies: The Shaping of English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake




New England in the Seventeenth Century




The 'Hub of Empire': the Caribbean and Britain in the Seventeenth Century




The English in Western Africa to 1700




The English in Asia to 1700




The English Government, War, Trade, and Settlement, 1625-1688




New Opportunities for British Settlement: Ireland, 1650-1700




Native Americans and Europeans in English America, 1500-1700




The Middle Colonies: New Opportunities for Settlement, 1660-1700




'Shaftesbury's Darling': British Settlement in the Carolinas at the Close of the Seventeenth Century




Overseas Expansion and Trade in the Seventeenth Century




The Emerging Empire: The Continental Perspective, 1650-1713




The Glorious Revolution and America




Navy, State, Trade, and Empire



Chronology


Index