Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713

by Christian J. Koot and Christian Koot

Book Overview

Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial ports that functioned as nodes of Atlantic shipping, where orderliness reflected the effectiveness of the regulatory apparatus constructed to contain Atlantic commerce. Colonial ports were governable places where British vessels, and only British vessels, were to deliver English goods in exchange for colonial produce. Yet behind these sanitized depictions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479855421
• ISBN13: 9781479855421
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"