Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire by Swingen, Abigail L.

Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300187540)

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Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire by Swingen, Abigail L.

Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire

$94.00
Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire by Swingen, Abigail L.

Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire

$94.00
Format: Hardcover
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Abigail L. Swingen's insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British empire while exploring how England's original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections between the growth of unfree labor in the English colonies--particularly the use of enslaved Africans--and the development of British imperialism during the early modern period, the author examines the overlapping and often competing agendas of planters, merchants, privateers, colonial officials, and imperial authorities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Author: Abigail L. Swingen
ISBN-10: 0300187548
ISBN-13: 9780300187540
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2015
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.40w x 0.90d

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Choice 06/01/2015
By Abigail L. Swingen
By Abigail L. Swingen
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Abigail Swingen is assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University. She lives in Lubbock, Texas.

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