Competing visions of empire : labor, slavery, and the origins of the British Atlantic empire / Abigail L. Swingen.
2015
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Title
Competing visions of empire : labor, slavery, and the origins of the British Atlantic empire / Abigail L. Swingen.
ISBN
9780300187540 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300187548 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300187548 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Language
English
Description
xiii, 271 pages : map ; 25 cm
Item Number
99975740534
Call Number
F2131 .S94 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
972.9/03
Summary
Abigail L. Swingen's insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England's original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections between the growth of unfree labor in the English colonies, particularly the use of enslaved Africans, and the development of British imperialism during the early modern period, the author examines the overlapping, often competing agendas of planters, merchants, privateers, colonial officials, and imperial authorities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Unfree labor and the origins of empire
Commonwealth and protectorate imperialism: the Western Design and its consequences, 1654-1660
Restoration imperialism: the shaping of imperial administration, 1660-1671
Politicized empire: the crown, the African Company, and centralization, 1671-1678
Exclusion, the Tory ascendancy, and the English empire, 1678-1688
The 1690s: war, unfree labor, and empire
The slave trade, the asiento, and the national interest, 1698-1718.
Commonwealth and protectorate imperialism: the Western Design and its consequences, 1654-1660
Restoration imperialism: the shaping of imperial administration, 1660-1671
Politicized empire: the crown, the African Company, and centralization, 1671-1678
Exclusion, the Tory ascendancy, and the English empire, 1678-1688
The 1690s: war, unfree labor, and empire
The slave trade, the asiento, and the national interest, 1698-1718.