Alaine Low: 2 books
by Alaine Low, Wm. Roger Louis
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1998
Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain...
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire
British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1998
Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate...