Empires and Colonies

by Jonathan Locke Hart

Book Overview

Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States. Whilst providing special attention to Europe, the book is careful to highlight the ambivalence and contradiction of that expansion. The book also illuminates connections between empires and colonies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745626149
• ISBN13: 9780745626147
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"