The origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750Tim Riding
The origins of empire : British overseas enterprise to the close of the seventeenth century , America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750, Chapel Hill 1995; N. Canny (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, volume I: The Origins ... N Canny,A Low 被引量: 0发表: 1998年 ...
aBritannia, the new national personification of Great Britain, was established in the 1750s as a representation of "nation and empire rather than any single national hero".[102] On Britannia and British identity, historian Peter Borsay wrote: Britannia,英国的新的全国拟人,在18世纪50年代作为“国家...
The English Revolution of the 1640s forced settlers in America to reconsider their place within the empire. Older colonies like Virginia and proprietary colonies like Maryland sympathized with the Crown. Newer colonies like Massachusetts Bay, populated by religious dissenters taking part in the Great M...
Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates ...
An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750–1850doi:10.1080/10509585.2015.1124573Deirdre ColemanUniversity of MelbourneEuropean Romantic Review
Chapter 1: Liverpool, the slave trade and the British-Atlantic empire, c. 1750-75doi:10.7765/MSI/9781526118035.02Empire in One City
British empireexclusive tradeindividual interestIn the mid鈥恊ighteenth century, colonisation was criticised on the grounds that profits from it were captured by private merchants that the colonies prospered in spite of not because of colonial policy, and that benefits accrued to the colonies and ...
British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies—colonies, protectorates, and other territories—that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of Great Britain and the administration of the British government.