| Atlas of British Overseas Expansion Contributor(s): Porter, A. N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415019184 ISBN-13: 9780415019187 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see Also Travel - Maps & Road Atlases) - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History |
| Dewey: 325.341 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 7.01" W x 10" (1.59 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With the help of almost 140 maps and town plans and explanatory texts, this atlas covers a vast area in terms of period and passage of time, geography, place and distance. In addition to Britain's colonial development, it touches on subjects including the changing territorial pattern of empire, exploration, trade, communications and imperial defence, war and conquest, the activities of Britain's missionaries and consuls and the shift of white settlement. |