The Rise of the English-speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780's.
Revolutionary Empire is the most ambitious attempt for many years to tell the story of first English, then British expansion within these Isles and overseas. Its title evokes events which have transformed life everywhere in the world - the political revolutions in England and Scotland in the seventeenth century, the 'democratic revolution' which began with the revolt of the thirteen colonies, then found expression in Europe, and the 'industrial revolution' simultaneously occurring in Britain.
Calder concerns himself with social and intellectual history as well as with political and economic developments, interweaving English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and colonial events in to a single pattern. This story also includes James VI attempting to colonise the Hebrides, captain Tom Phillips trading for slaves at Whydah, and Cudjoe leading his black guerrillas in Jamaica.
Contains black and white photographs.
