Competing visions of empire : labor, slavery, and the origins of the British Atlantic empire / Abigail L. Swingen.
Swingen, Abigail Leslie, author.
2015
F2131 .S94 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Competing visions of empire : labor, slavery, and the origins of the British Atlantic empire / Abigail L. Swingen.
Author Swingen, Abigail Leslie, author.
ISBN 9780300187540 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300187548 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Language English
Description xiii, 271 pages : map ; 25 cm
Other Standard Identifiers 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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