Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775 e-bog
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This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state', and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered...
E-bog
875,33 DKK
Forlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Udgivet
24 juli 1996
Genrer
1DD
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780230390195
This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state', and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.