Table of Contents

1. Early ventures 1480–1550; 2. The northeast; 3. From Muscovy to Persia; 4. The Levant; 5. Western Africa; 6. The Caribbean; 7. Beyond the equinoctial; 8. Northwest with Frobisher and Davis; 9. Gilbert's ventures; 10. Roanoke; 11. The sea-war 1585–1603; 12. The East India Company; 13. The West Indies 1585–1630; 14. North America 1591–1630; 15. North and Northwest 1602–32; 16. Reflections; Bibliography; Index.

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Explains the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire.