British America 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire

by Steven (Author), SARSON (Author)

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2005
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This account examines the way in which the New World was invented and offers a convincing analysis of the loss of the First British Empire.

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This account examines the way in which the New World was invented and offers a convincing analysis of the loss of the First British Empire.

$49.89

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 29 Apr 2005
ISBN 10: 0340760109
ISBN 13: 9780340760109
Book Overview: Clear-sighted analysis of the creation and development of the New World colonies Places the loss of the colonies in broad perspective Fully attuned to contemporary historiographical issues

Media Reviews

'Sarson's volume is essentially a textbook on early American history, covering the whole of settlement from the Maritime Provinces to the Caribbean and beyond. As such it is a good one. Sarson has compiled detailed narratives of the social and political development of every colony from the well-known stories of Virginians and New Englanders to far less familiar West Indian islands ... Especially intriguing is that Sarson extends not only the geographic but also the chronological boundaries of the field, managing most unusually to extend the story beyond 1776 even to the formation of a new government of the United States without losing sight of the larger context of British settlement and empire as imperial development extended into the northern reaches of North America and beyond.' Ned C. Landsman, William & Mary Quarterly

Author Bio

Steven Sarson is Lecturer in History at University of Wales, Swansea