This book explores the development of the fur trade in Chesapeake Bay during the seventeenth century, and the wide-ranging links that were formed in a new and e

This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It

How did Britain emerge as a world power and later as the world's first industrial society? What policies, cultural practices, and institutions were responsible

This book explores seventeenth-century English overseas expansion, offering a unique interpretation of the history of the early modern English Empire.

Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at least until the