The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of e

"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