Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775

By H.V. Bowen

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333622081
• ISBN13: 9780333622087
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"