Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic EmpireAbigail 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. |
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Commonwealth and Protectorate Imperialism The Western Design and Its Consequences 16541660 | 32 |
Restoration Imperialism The Shaping of Imperial Administration 16601671 | 56 |
Politicized Empire The Crown the African Company and Centralization 16711678 | 82 |
Exclusion the Tory Ascendancy and the English Empire 16781688 | 108 |
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