The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660

by Alison Games

Book Overview

How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important second book, Alison Games, a colonial American historian, explores the period from 1560 to 1660, when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in the 17th century as an empire to reckon with. Games...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195335546
• ISBN13: 9780195335545
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"