Competing Visions Of Empire
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Competing Visions of Empire
Author: Abigail L. Swingen
language: en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date: 2015-02-17
Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England’s original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections between the growth of unfree labor in the English colonies, particularly the use of enslaved Africans, and the development of British imperialism during the early modern period, the author examines the overlapping, often competing agendas of planters, merchants, privateers, colonial officials, and imperial authorities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Visions of Empire
Author: David Philip Miller
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2011-07-21
Richly illustrated 1996 collection on how Pacific plants and peoples were depicted by European explorers.
Competing Visions of Empire
Author: Abigail L. Swingen
language: en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date: 2015-01-01
This title explores the connections between the origins of the English empire and unfree labour by exploring how England's imperial designs influenced contemporary politics and debates about labour, population, political economy, and overseas trade. It pays particular attention to how and why slavery and England's participation in the transatlantic slave trade came to be widely accepted as central to the national and imperial interest by contributing to the idea that colonies with slaves were essential for the functioning of the empire.