THE WEB OF EMPIRE ENGLISH COSMOPOLITANS IN AN AGE OF EXPANSION, 1560-1660: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660

How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important work, Alison Games explores the period when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in the 17th century as an empire to reckon with.

Alison Games is Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History, Georgetown University. She is the author of Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World and co-author of The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888.