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

by Steven Sarson

Book Overview

Sarson combines the histories of colonies and empires--usually distinct fields of inquiry--in a sweeping introduction to, and interpretation of, the British-American New World. He argues that while settlers created colonies, the early empire remained a largely imaginary construct. When Britain finally imposed a vision of empire from the 1760s, the settlers declared their independence, forcing Britain to consider imperialism as something much more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340760109
• ISBN13: 9780340760109
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"