TY - BOOK AU - Swingen,Abigail Leslie TI - Competing visions of empire: labor, slavery, and the origins of the British Atlantic empire SN - 978-0-300-18754-0 U1 - 972.903 23E PY - 2015/// CY - New Haven, London PB - Yale University Press KW - West Indies, British / History KW - 17th century KW - West Indies, British / Economic conditions / 17th century KW - West Indies, British / Commerce KW - Slavery / West Indies, British / History / 17th century KW - West Indies, British / Historiography KW - Imperialism / History KW - West Indies, British / History / 18th century KW - West Indies, British / Economic conditions / 18th century KW - Slavery / West Indies, British / History / 18th century N1 - Notes bibliogr; Unfree labor and the origins of empire -- Commonwealth and protectorate imperialism: the Western Design and its consequences, 1654-1660 -- Restoration imperialism: the shaping of imperial administration, 1660-1671 -- Politicized empire: the crown, the African Company, and centralization, 1671-1678 -- Exclusion, the Tory ascendancy, and the English empire, 1678-1688 -- The 1690s: war, unfree labor, and empire -- The slave trade, the asiento, and the national interest, 1698-1718 ER -