The Dawn of Empire
Ian Duffield finds much of interest in a new account of the beginnings of British imperialism
Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires From the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s, by Angus Calder
xxiii +916 pp (Jonathan Cape, London, 1981)
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