The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire —— British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

----- 牛津大英帝国史：第一卷：帝国的起源：十七世纪末的英国海外企业

ISBN: 9780199246762 出版年：2011 页码： Oxford University Press

The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. Volume I explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on every part of the world that was substantially affected by British colonial activity.