books.google.com - Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States. Whilst providing special attention to Europe,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Empires_and_Colonies.html?id=LnevC1FYdnEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEmpires and Colonies