Elites, Enterprise, And The Making Of The British Overseas Empire, 1688-1775
by H. V. Bowen /
1996 / English / PDF
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This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that
shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth
century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context
informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state',
and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not
as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered
across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body
with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.
This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that
shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth
century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context
informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state',
and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not
as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered
across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body
with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.
