Author: Herbert PicklesPublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The New World Geographies: Britain and British trade
Author: Herbert PicklesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Britain's Oceanic Empire
Author: H. V. BowenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702014X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Geography Is Destiny
Author: Ian MorrisPublisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 178283351X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel 'Morris succeeds triumphantly at cramming 10,000 years of history into a single book' Robert Colvile, The Times For hundreds of years, Britannia ruled the waves and an empire on which the sun never set - but for thousands of years before that, Britain had been no more than a cluster of unimportant islands off Europe's north-west shore. Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, Ian Morris shows how much the meaning of Britain's geography has changed in the 10,000 years since rising seas began separating the Isles from the Continent, and how these changing meanings have determined Britons' destinies. From being merely Europe's fractious, feuding periphery - divided by customs, language and landscape, and always at the mercy of more powerful continental neighbours - the British turned themselves into a United Kingdom and put it at the centre of global politics, commerce and culture. But as power and wealth now shift from the West towards China, what fate awaits Britain in the twenty-first century?
The New World: Problems in Political Geography
Author: Isaiah BowmanThe New World
Author: Isaiah BowmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundaries
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Geography of Empire in English Literature, 1580-1745
Author: Bruce McLeodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521660792
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Between 1580 and 1745, a period that saw Edmund Spenser's journey to an unconquered Ireland and the Jacobite Rebellion, the first British Empire was established. The intervening years saw the cultural and material forces of colonialism pursue a fitful, often fanciful endeavour to secure space for this expansion. With the defeat of the Highland clans, what England in 1580 could only dream about had materialised: a coherent, socio-spatial system known as an empire. Taking the Atlantic world as its context, this ambitious 1999 book argues that England's culture during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was saturated with a geographic imagination fed by the experiences and experiments of colonialism. Using theories of space and its production to ground his readings, Bruce McLeod skilfully explores how works by Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Aphra Behn, Mary Rowlandson, Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift imagine, interrogate and narrate the adventure and geography of empire.
The Periodical
Author: The Creation of the British Atlantic World
Author: Elizabeth ManckePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801880391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Presenting a discussion of the forces that created the first British Empire, this volume explores differing perspectives on the rise of Britain as a world power between the 16th & 19th centuries.
Oxford University Press
Author: Oxford University PressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Pictorial Geography of the World: New world
Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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