Empire at the Periphery by Christian J. Koot PAPERBACK 9781479855421

Empire at the Periphery\nby Christian J. Koot\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Christian J. Koot\nTitle: Empire at the Periphery\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479855421\nISBN-10: 1479855421\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThroughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial ports that functioned as nodes of Atlantic shipping, where orderliness reflected the effectiveness of the regulatory apparatus constructed to contain Atlantic commerce. Colonial ports were governable places where British vessels, and only British vessels, were to deliver English goods in exchange for colonial produce. Yet behind these sanitized depictions lay another story, one.