The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire
British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century
Series: The Oxford History of the British Empire; I;
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- Edition number and title :Volume I: The Origins of Empire
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 May 1998
- ISBN 9780198205623
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages554 pages
- Size 242x162x34 mm
- Weight 956 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 maps 0
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Short description:
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. Volume I 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.
MoreLong description:
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 become a firm commitment.
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The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. It deals with the interaction of British and non-western societies from the Elizabethan era to the late twentieth century, aiming to provide a balanced treatment of the ruled as well as the rulers, and to take into account the significance of the Empire for the peoples of the British Isles. It explores economic and social trends as well as political.
The writing is throughout lucid and unpretentious, the judgements sensible and stimulating and the scholarship fully abreast of recent developments ... a timely and accomplished volume.
Table of Contents:
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
`Civilizing of those Rude Partes': Colonization within Britain and Ireland 1580s-1640s
England's New Word 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
Literature and Empire
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 Emprire: The Continental Perspective 1650-1715
The Glorious Revolution and America
Navy, State, Trade, and Empire
