The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire
Subtitle: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford History of the British Empire)
Contributors: Nicholas Canny (Editor); Alaine Low (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 12, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9780198205623
First sentence: The study of the British Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries presents special difficulties because no empire, as the term subsequently came to be understood, then existed, while the adjective 'British' meant little to most inhabitants of Britain and Ireland during the years covered by this volume.