Download or read book Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaping the Stuart World examines the wide-ranging European interaction inherent in British expansion and discovers a multi-dimensional, multi-national Atlantic as a result. Spain, Sweden, and especially the Netherlands emerge as central to English and Scottish endeavors overseas and to the extremely diverse populations and cultures that eventually came to be known as British North America.