Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Subtitle: Sixth Series (Royal Historical Society Transactions)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 23, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780521793520
Subjects: World history: c 1750 to c 1900; World - General; History; History - General History; History: World; History / World
First sentence: THESE addresses have been trying to explore the obvious paradox in eighteenth-century Britain's fortunes overseas: a North American empire, as I suggested last year, deeply rooted in the rich soil of a close-knit transatlantic community, was to come crashing down in the gale unleashed by the new imperial anxieties and ambitions of Britain's rulers.