How did trade, migration, and warfare influence the expansion of the empire into North America and Asia?
Louis: It is precisely those elements that you just mentioned. It’s migration, religion, trade, and war that did create the empire in America and in Asia. The American Revolution severely damaged the British imperial structure, but the system itself, nevertheless, survived and grew into an empire that encompassed a large part of the world during the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth. The eighteenth century deals with the American Revolution. Would you like for me to make a point about that? Ferris: Yes. How did losing the American colonies affect British attitudes toward empire? Louis: What the volume does is deal with the American Revolution from a British perspective. I think this is certain to be of great interest to a lot of American readers, because it demonstrates how the British colonists in North America really did attach a fundamental significance to their status as Englishmen, as Englishmen abroad, who should have all of the rights of Englishmen living in Engla
