Captives: The story of Britain's pursuit of empire and how its soldiers and civilians wereheld captive by the dream of global supremacy by Linda Colley

Captives: The story of Britain's pursuit of empire and how its soldiers and civilians wereheld captive by the dream of global supremacy

Linda Colley

464 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Britain’s pursuit of empire seems an inexorable march across continents toward its ultimate—if temporary-—global hegemony. But, as Linda Colley shows in this masterfully written book, Britain’s overseas enterprises were always constrained by its o...

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