The British in the Americas 1480-1815 / Edition 1

by Anthony Mcfarlane

Overview

Of northern European nations, the British had the greatest impact on the Americas. Their history there embraces far more than the colonies that became the United States: England had been in the New World for a century before those colonies were established, and the British presence long outlived their loss. This integrated account of that involvement spans the entire arc of British territories from the Caribbean to Canada, and the entire period from the first appearance of the English to the disintegration of the British and other Euro-American empires. A fascinating story, engrossingly told, it fills a major gap in current historiography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582209497
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/12/1994
Series:	Studies In Modern History
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables, List of Maps, Preface, Introduction, PART ONE - Emergence of Empire, 1480-1642, 1. English Explorations in the Atlantic, 2. First Colonies, 3. Migrants and Settlers, PART TWO - Expansion and Consolidation, 4. The Expansion of Empire, 5. English Colonies in the Caribbean, 6. The North American Colonies, 7. Government and Politics, PART THREE - Transformtions of Empire, 1713-1815, 8. War, Trade and Empire, 1713-1776, 9. Crisis of Empire, 10. Realignments of Empire, Epilogue, Bibliography, Maps, Index

Editorial Reviews

An introduction to the social, economic, and political history of all the major Anglo-American colonial regions, from Canada to the Caribbean, relating the British colonial experience to the larger process of European expansion and decline in the Americas. With maps. First published in Spanish in 1992 by Editorial Mapfre S.A., Madrid. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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