The British Overseas, Part 1, Making of the Empire: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers
Book Details
Author(s)C. E. Carrington
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN052109514X
ISBN-139780521095143
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
This is a digital reprint of a volume from 1968 where Professor Carrington brought up to date the first nine chapters of his classic study of the expansion of the British peoples overseas. This volume deals with the early British ventures overseas from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Professor Carrington describes the establishment of the American colonies, the activities of the East India Company, the exploration of the South Seas and British activities in the Cape and the East.
