The British Overseas, Part 1, Making of the Empire: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers

di C. E. Carrington (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 1968

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.

• Autore: C. E. Carrington
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 1968
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 576 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 720 gr.
• EAN: 9780521095143

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