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Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688 / L. H. Roper

Review Date: 
24 May 2018

In this impressive and well-researched book, L. H. Roper offers an innovative examination of the 17th-century English global empire to establish exactly who directed English colonial expansion during its nascent years.

How Taiwan became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century /

Review Date: 
28 Feb 2010

In this book, Tonio Andrade tells the story of a wild and uncultivated island originally inhabited by aboriginal hunters and traders.