Is This the First British Empire?

The idea of britishness is a fundamentally imperial idea, right? It's a relationship to other people mediated through an identity. Cromwell grants poor quality land to catholics who could demonstrate definitively that they had no part in the 16 forty one rebellion. He also takes many prisoners, who are sent as settlers or workers to the american or to caribbean sus this widespread project of o dispossession and of and of killing. And you can kind of maybe see some parallels with columbus later on,. almost coterminously, where native peoples were segregated and put in separate camps.