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Competing visions of empire : labor, slavery, and the origins of the British Atlantic empire
Title
Competing visions of empire : labor, slavery, and the origins of the British Atlantic empire / Abigail L. Swingen.
ISBN
0300189443
9780300189445
0300187548
9780300187540
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Summary
This title explores the connections between the origins of the English empire and unfree labour by exploring how England's imperial designs influenced contemporary politics and debates about labour, population, political economy, and overseas trade. It pays particular attention to how and why slavery and England's participation in the transatlantic slave trade came to be widely accepted as central to the national and imperial interest by contributing to the idea that colonies with slaves were essential for the functioning of the empire.
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EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Swingen, Abigail Leslie. Competing visions of empire
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Unfree labor and the origins of empire
Commonwealth and protectorate imperialism: the Western Design and its consequences, 1654-1660
Restoration imperialism: the shaping of imperial administration, 1660-1671
Politicized empire: the crown, the African Company, and centralization, 1671-1678
Exclusion, the Tory ascendancy, and the English empire, 1678-1688
The 1690s: war, unfree labor, and empire
The slave trade, the asiento, and the national interest, 1698-1718.
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History.
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