01.11 - The New World

Compared to the kingdoms of Iberia, England was fairly late to the
colonisation game. This episode covers the costly failures of
Elizabeth's reign, and the successful, but still costly, attempts
which James oversaw. Enormous death tolls from disease, starvation,
and violence were not enough to prevent the foundations of British
North America. Check out the podcast website:
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https://twitter.com/BritannicaPax In this episode I made particular
use of the following publications: - Benjamin, T. (2009). The
Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared
History, 1400-1900. Cambridge - Nicholas Canny, 'The Origins of
Empire: An Introduction', in The Oxford History of the British
Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire - John C. Appleby, 'War,
Politics, and Colonization, 1558-1625', in The Oxford History of
the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire For a full
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