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'A Free though Conquering People' - Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire (Hardcover, New Ed)
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'A Free though Conquering People' - Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The present collection brings together a series of studies by Peter
Marshall on British imperial expansion in the later 18th century.
Some essays focus on the thirteen North American colonies, the West
Indies, and British contact with China; those dealing specifically
with India have appeared in the author's 'Trade and Conquest:
Studies on the rise of British domination in India'. The majority,
culminating in the four addresses on 'Britain and the World in the
Eighteenth Century' delivered as President of the Royal Historical
Society, deal with the processes and dynamics of empire-building
and aim to bring together the history of Asia and the Atlantic. The
themes investigated include the pressures that induced Britain to
pursue new imperial strategies from the mid-18th century, Britain's
contrasting fortunes in India and North America, and the way in
which the British adjusted their conceptions of empire from one
based on freedom and the domination of the seas, to one which
involved the exercise of autocratic rule over millions of people
and great expanses of territory.
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