audiobook Country Life in Georgia In the Days of My Youth: ALSO Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs; Women's Organizations and other Noted Occassions by Rebeca Latimer Felton in History

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Linking four continents over three centuries; Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century; Britain was economically; politically; and militarily weaker than India; but Britons increasingly made use of India's strengths to build their own empire in both America and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned America as a potential India; hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies could produce Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize; Britain's circulation of Indian manufactured goods--from umbrellas to cottons--to Africa; Europe; and America then established an empire of goods and the supposed good of empire. Eacott recasts the British empire's chronology and geography by situating the development of consumer culture; the American Revolution; and British industrialization in the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth into the nineteenth century and beyond; the evolving networks; ideas; and fashions that bound India; Britain; and America shaped persisting global structures of economic and cultural interdependence.