Chapter Two: Restoration Settlements

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Chapter One: Debating Power & Empire

Debating Power & Empire England’s New World empire emerged within a political, legal, and cultural context shaped not only by the peoples they encountered in the Atlantic world but also by deep contests over power within England and between England and other...