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The web of empire : English cosmopolitans in an age of expansion, 1560-1660 / Alison Games.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) DA16 .G36 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Games, Alison, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commerce.
- History.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- Great Britain--Commerce--History--16th century.
- Great Britain--Commerce--History--17th century.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--1558-1603.
- International relations.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--1603-1688.
- Imperialism--History.
- Imperialism.
- Great Britain--Civilization--16th century.
- Civilization.
- Great Britain--Civilization--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 Before the Grand Tour: The Domestication of Travel 17
- 2 The Mediterranean Origins of the British Empire 47
- 3 English Overseas Merchants in an Expanding World of Trade, 1590-1660 81
- 4 Virginia, 1607-1622 117
- 5 All the King's Men: Governors, Consuls, and Ambassadors, 1590-1650 147
- 6 Madagascar, 1635-1650 181
- 7 The Cosmopolitan Clergy, 1620-1660 219
- 8 Ireland, 1649-1660 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-363) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780195335545
- 0195335546
- OCLC:
- 173683815
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