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Zusatztext from start to finish, this is an argumentative book written in accessible prose, which is certain to generate debate, stimulate challenges, and consolidate the reputation of Alison Games as one of the most accomplished scholars writing today on England's North American World within the context of its more general expansion overseas. Informationen zum Autor Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History, Georgetown University. Author of Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Harvard UP, 1999) and co-author of The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888 (Harlan Davidson, 2007). Klappentext How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important work, Alison Games explores the period when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in the 17th century as an empire to reckon with. Zusammenfassung How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important work, Alison Games explores the period when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in the 17th century as an empire to reckon with. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Before the Grand Tour: The Domestication of Travel 2: The Mediterranean Origins of the British Empire 3: English Overseas Merchants in an Expanding World of Trade, 1590-1650 4: Virginia, 1607-1622 5: All the King's Men: Governors, Consuls, and Ambassadors, 1590-1650 6: Madagascar, 1635-1650 7: The Cosmopolitan Clergy, 1620-1660 8: Ireland, 1649-1660 Conclusion
