Britannia's Auxiliaries: Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740-1800

by Stephen Conway

Britannia's Auxiliaries provides the first wide-ranging attempt to consider the continental European contribution to the eighteenth-century British Empire. The British benefited from many European inputs--financial, material, and, perhaps most importantly, human. Continental Europeans appeared in different British imperial sites as soldiers, settlers, scientists, sailors, clergymen, merchants, and technical experts. They also sustained the empire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198808704
• ISBN13: 9780198808701
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"