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Author Swingen, Abigail Leslie, author.

Title Competing visions of empire : labor, slavery, and the origins of the British Atlantic empire / Abigail L. Swingen.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Unfree labor and the origins of empire -- Commonwealth and protectorate imperialism: the Western Design and its consequences, 1654-1660 -- Restoration imperialism: the shaping of imperial administration, 1660-1671 -- Politicized empire: the crown, the African Company, and centralization, 1671-1678 -- Exclusion, the Tory ascendancy, and the English empire, 1678-1688 -- The 1690s: war, unfree labor, and empire -- The slave trade, the asiento, and the national interest, 1698-1718.
Summary This title explores the connections between the origins of the English empire and unfree labour by exploring how England's imperial designs influenced contemporary politics and debates about labour, population, political economy, and overseas trade. It pays particular attention to how and why slavery and England's participation in the transatlantic slave trade came to be widely accepted as central to the national and imperial interest by contributing to the idea that colonies with slaves were essential for the functioning of the empire.
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Subject West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.
West Indies, British -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.
West Indies, British -- Commerce.
Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.
Slavery.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject West Indies, British -- Historiography.
Imperialism -- History.
Imperialism.
West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century.
West Indies, British -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
1600-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Swingen, Abigail Leslie. Competing visions of empire 9780300187540 (DLC) 2014027080 (OCoLC)883836425
ISBN 9780300189445 (electronic book)
0300189443 (electronic book)
9780300187540 (print)
0300187548