Competing visions of empire
Subtitle: labor, slavery, and the origins of the British Atlantic empire
By: Abigail L. Swingen
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780300187540
Subjects: Historiography; Commerce; Imperialism; Economic conditions; Slavery; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unfree labor and the origins of empire; title: Commonwealth and protectorate imperialism: the Western Design and its consequences, 1654-1660; title: Restoration imperialism: the shaping of imperial administration, 1660-1671; title: Politicized empire: the crown, the African Company, and centralization, 1671-1678; title: Exclusion, the Tory ascendancy, and the English empire, 1678-1688; title: The 1690s: war, unfree labor, and empire; title: The slave trade, the asiento, and the national interest, 1698-1718.