The British Overseas, Part 1, Making of the Empire: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers

by C. E. Carrington

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A first volume reprint of the second edition of Professor Carrington's 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.

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Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government
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325.3Society, government, & culturePolitical scienceInternational migration and colonizationEnglish
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DA16 .C32History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaGreat BritainHistory of Great BritainBritish Empire. Commonwealth of Nations. The
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