Trade, Plunder and Settlement
Andrews, Kenneth R.![Trade, Plunder and Settlement](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/205/20589484/CHSBZCOP0320589484.jpg)
Not since 1945 has a general account of the origins of the British Empire been published, as if the demise of the empire had freed us from our imperial past and historians from any obligation to digest it. Of course it has done nothing of the kind, but it does enable the historian today to approach that past in a more critical spirit and to attempt a deeper and more detached analysis than could have been expected a generation ago. The purpose ...