Europe and a Wider World 1415-1715 by JH Parry. Reprint 1969. S/C. 176 pp.

'A masterpiece of simplification and exposition ...'

The colonising activities of the principal European nations are discussed in detail from the time of Prince Henry the Navigator to the Treaty of Utrecht. The author analyses the impact of trade, missions and plantations on the New World and unravels the complex theories and motives behind the expansion of Christendom and the growth of European power overseas. Written by a Harvard University historian. 

First published 1949. This is the revised third edition of 1969 published by Hutchinson University Library, London. Condition: Fair to goo