Christopher Columbus is quite a controversial figure, being called a national hero and a ruthless and greedy imperialist. His logical and geocraphical ideas of a westward route to Asia were brought by the literature he read. To gain support for his project, he would attemt and fail a few times befor...

As the British Empire spread its dominion across the seas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, great masses of people poured forth to populate its ever-widening realms. Their migration unfolded in stages. They journeyed from farms to towns, from towns to great cities like London and Bristol,...