Product Description: Having succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Spain and Portugal became the first imperial powers on a worldwide scale in the early 16th century. Although they lost their political primacy in the 17th century, both monarchies survived and enjoyed relative success until the early 19th century...read more

Product Description: Large 8vo. vi (ii), 376 pp, Introduction by Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer, I. Contexts: 1. Dominion as Domesticity: Milton's Imperial God and the Experience of History by Janel Mueller; 2. The "Lordly Eye": Milton and the Strategic Geography of Empire by Bruce McLeod; 3...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores seventeenth-century British politics and military history (view table of contents)

Product Description: In the decade and a half before his untimely death at 46, Philip Lawson had already achieved more than many historians. This posthumously published collection brings together his work on the British overseas expansion during the ’long’ 18th century and includes two previously unpublished essays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)