| The British Overseas, Part 1, Making of the Empire: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers Revised Edition Contributor(s): Carrington, C. E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 052109514X ISBN-13: 9780521095143 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $59.84 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1968 Annotation: This is a digital reprint of a volume from 1968 where Professor Carrington brought up to date the first nine chapters of his classic study of the expansion of the British peoples overseas. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 325.342 |
| LCCN: 68023176 |
| Physical Information: 1.28" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.59 lbs) 576 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a digital reprint of a volume from 1968 where Professor Carrington brought up to date the first nine chapters of his classic study of the expansion of the British peoples overseas. This volume deals with the early British ventures overseas from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Professor Carrington describes the establishment of the American colonies, the activities of the East India Company, the exploration of the South Seas and British activities in the Cape and the East. |