格式化内容附注: | Part I. Chapter one, in which it is fish day on the Mary Rose, anchored in Portsmouth harbour (Saturday 18 July 1545): how the trade in Newfoundland salt cod laid the foundations for the Empire -- Chapter two, in which John Dunton eats oatcake and hare boiled in butter in a Connaught cabin (1698): how Ireland was planted with English, became a centre of the provisions trade and fed the emerging Empire -- Chapter three, in which the Holloway family eat maize bread and salt beef succotash, Sandwich, New England (June 1647): how the English chased the dream of the yeoman farmer but were forced to compromise -- Chapter four, in which Colonel James Drax holds a feast at his sugar plantation on the island of Barbados (1640s): how the West Indian sugar islands drove the growth of the First British Empire. |