Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

We get to grips with the history of King Philip's War, and set the stage for the conflict to come.

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Philip J. Stern, Professor of History at Duke

Empire, Incorporated

The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India
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New England faces smallpox, failed harvests, and religious dissenters.

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With the downfall of Clarendon, the CABAL takes centre stage in Restoration politics. But it's never so simple...

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Bankruptcy forces the Royal Navy into port. I'm sure it'll be safe.

Nicholas Rodgers, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, Volume 2, 1649–1815

Anna Keay, The Restless Republic, 2022.

Rebecca Rideal, 1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire, 2016.

Frank Fox, The Four Days' Battle: The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail, 2009.

David Onnekink & Gijs Rommelse, The Dutch in the Early Modern World.

Steve Murdoch, The terror of the Seas: Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713, 2010.

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