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The origins of empire : British overseas enterprise to the close of the seventeenth century /
Annotation Volume I of theOxford History of the British Empireexplores 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©1998
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| Colección: | Oxford history of the British Empire ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Annotation Volume I of theOxford History of the British Empireexplores 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191591778 0191591777 0199246769 9780199246762 |