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Author:   Nicholas Canny (Professor of History, and Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway) ,  Wm Roger Louis
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.843kg
ISBN:  

9780199246762

ISBN 10:   0199246769
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   26 July 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. The Origins of Empire: An Introduction ; 2. The Struggle for Legitimacy and the Image of Empire in the Atlantic to c. 1700 ; 3. War, Politics, and Colonization 1558-1625 ; 4. Guns and Sails in the First Phase of English Colonization 1500-1650 ; 5. 'Civilizing of those Rude Partes': Colonization within Britain and Ireland 1580s-1640s ; 6. England's New Word and the Old 1480s-1630s ; 7. Tobacco Colonies: The Shaping of English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake ; 8. New England in the Seventeenth Century ; 9. The Hub of Empire: The Caribbean and Britain the Seventeenth Century ; 10. The English in Western Africa to 1700 ; 11. The English in Asia to 1700 ; 12. Literature and Empire ; 13. The English Government, War, Trade, and Settlement 1625-1688 ; 14. New Opportunities for British Settlement: Ireland 1650-1700 ; 15. Native Americans and Europeans in English America 1500-1700 ; 16. The Middle Colonies: New Opportunities for Settlement 1660-1700 ; 17. 'Shaftesbury's Darling': British Settlement in the Carolinas at the Close of the Seventeenth Century ; 18. Overseas Expansion and Trade in the Seventeenth Century ; 19. The Emerging Emprire: The Continental Perspective 1650-1715 ; 20. The Glorious Revolution and America ; 21. Navy, State, Trade, and Empire

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Review from previous edition this is an extremely useful volume, and it will be the principal reference work for many years to come. The crisp and apparently effortless summaries of existing scholarship reveal an extraordinarily high level of meticulousness. * Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Journal of American History * this is an extremely useful volume, and it will be the principal reference work for many years to come. The crisp and apparently effortless summaries of existing scholarship reveal an extra-ordinarily high level of meticulousness. * Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Journal of American History, June 00. * Oxford University Press has recently published a wide variety of historical titles in paperback. Pride of place must go to the five volume Oxford History of the British Empire written under the general editorship of Professor William Roger Lewis and published in hardback in 1998. The five volumes, describe the history and effect of the Empire on world history. The scholars who contributed and the volumes' individual editors all deserve high praise for thie massive undertaking. * Contemporary Review *

<br> An extremely useful volume, and it will be the principal reference work for many years to come. --Journal of American History<p><br>

An extremely useful volume, and it will be the principal reference work for many years to come. --Journal of American History<br>

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Nicholas Canny is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

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