1st Edition

British in the Americas 1480-1815, The

By Anthony Mcfarlane Copyright 1994
380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

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Mcfarlane, Anthony