Author

Publication

2017 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

78,000 words, Guess

Page Count

312 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101107118913
  • ISBN-139781107118911
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017009161
  • OCLC Control Number982092002
  • Better World Books9781107118911
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCDA16.R58 2017
  • LCCDA16 .R58 2017

Description

"In Advancing Empire, L. H. Roper explores the origins and early development of English overseas expansion. Roper focuses on the networks of aristocrats, merchants, and colonial-imperialists who worked to control the transport and production of exotic commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, as well as the labor required to produce them. He is primarily interested in the relationship between the English state and the people it governed, the role of that state in imperial development, the socio-political character of English colonies and English relations with Asians, Africans, American Indians, and other Europeans overseas. The activities stimulated the expansion and integration of global territorial and commercial interests that became the British Empire in the eighteenth century. In exploring these activities from a wider perspective, Roper offers a novel conclusion that revises popular analyses of the English Empire and of Anglo-America"--

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Other Editions

  • Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688Cambridge University Press2017-01-01

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