Banks, K: Chasing Empire Across the Sea

Name: Banks, K: Chasing Empire Across the Sea
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press
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By Banks, Kenneth J.

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Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material from archives and research libraries in Canada, France, and the United States, Kenneth Banks details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing a tradition of maritime interest in the Americas and West Africa dating back to the earliest years of the sixteenth century, seemed destined to take a leading role in exploiting and settling the Americas and establishing posts in West Africa. That it largely failed to do so can be explained in large part by problems emanating from information exchange in an early modern authoritarian state. Banks provides a historical context for the role of communications in the development of the imperial nation-state and offers an Atlantic World perspective on the growing body of literature revising the historical role of absolutism.

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Number of Pages:: 344
Release Date:: 2003-01-01
Publication Date:: 2003-01-01
Publisher:: McGill-Queen's University Press
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0773524444
ISBN13:: 9780773524446
Weight:: 667 g
Height:: 154 cm
Width:: 242 cm
Thickness:: 29 cm

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