L H Roper: 2 books
Advancing Empire
English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613–1688
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
In Advancing Empire, L. H. Roper explores the origins and early development of English overseas expansion. Roper focuses on the networks of aristocrats, merchants, and colonial-imperialists who worked to control the transport and production of exotic commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, as well...
The English Empire in America, 1602-1658
Beyond Jamestown
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century.