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Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775

Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775

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ISBN10: 0333622081
ISBN13: 9780333622087
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 24 1996
Pages: 257
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state', and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.

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