Elites, Enterprise, and the Making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688-1775 By H. V. Bowen
1996 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0333622081 | PDF | 22 MB
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.