[PDF.52hx] Captives: The story of Britain's pursuit of empire and how its soldiers and civilians were held captive by the dream of global supremacy

Captives: The story of Britain's pursuit of empire and how its soldiers and civilians were held captive by the dream of global supremacy

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 | #1079441 in Books |  2003-01-07 |  2003-01-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.52 x1.37 x6.36l, | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| >> Captivity Narratives Bring to Life a Forgotten Era <<|By Reviewer R2D2|In Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850, Linda Colley exposes a perspective of the Imperial Britain that goes against traditional history. Although Britain experienced expansion at an unprecedented rate during the late 1600s until the mid-1800s, it had spread itself too thin across the glob|From Publishers Weekly|Colley (Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837) brilliantly marshals an array of captivity narratives by everyday Britons captured by foreign powers to show the dizzying ethnic and cultural complexity of empire. She considers four zones of

Britain’s pursuit of empire seems an inexorable march across continents toward its ultimate—if temporary-—global hegemony. But, as Linda Colley shows in this masterfully written book, Britain’s overseas enterprises were always constrained by its own limitations in size, population, and armed forces, and by divisions among its subjects-—constraints and deficiencies that could make the dream of empire an ordeal even for its makers. Drawing on ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Captives: The story of Britain's pursuit of empire and how its soldiers and civilians were held captive by the dream of global supremacy   |  Linda Colley. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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