Dr Ian Coller: A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Enlightenment (The Cultural Histories Series) [2022] paperback Condition:New English and French trading companies

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Dr Ian Coller: A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Enlightenment (The Cultural Histories Series) [2022] paperback Condition:New English and French trading companiesThis fourth volume of A Cultural History of Western Empires explores the intersections and transformations of empire in the late 17th and 18th centuries: an age of "Enlightenment" understood here both as a product of these new forces and as a matrix shaping their emergence and development. As innovative ideas transformed warfare, commerce and agriculture, the great "universal" empires confronted new capitalist forces that both splintered and