Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850

ISBN-13: 9780712665285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 464 str.

Linda Colley

Opis

Ranging over a quarter of a millenium and four continents, this richly illustrated book uncovers the lives, deaths and autobiographical writings of a vital but forgotten constituency: the tens of thousands of men and women who took part in Britain's rise to imperial pre-eminence but who got caught and caught out.

O autorze

Linda Colley was born in Britain in 1949. She has taught at Cambridge, Yale University and the London School of Economics. She is currently Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Colley was awarded the CBE in the 2009 New Year Honours. Her previous books include In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 and Namier.