"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire

An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, G

An investigation of the Atlantic origins of the American Revolution, focusing on the British navy's impressment of American ships and mariners.

Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Bla

This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empir