Description
In Advancing Empire, L. H. Roper explores the origins and early development of English in a foreign country expansion. Roper specializes in the networks of aristocrats, merchants, and colonial-imperialists who worked to keep an eye on the transport and production of exotic commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, in addition to the labor required to produce them. He’s primarily interested within the relationship between the English state and the people it governed, the role of that state in imperial development, the socio-political character of English colonies and English relations with Asians, Africans, American Indians, and other Europeans in a foreign country. The activities stimulated the expansion and integration of global territorial and commercial interests that become the British Empire within the eighteenth century. In exploring these activities from a much broader viewpoint, Roper offers a novel conclusion that revises popular analyses of the English Empire and of Anglo-The us.