Wreckers : Disaster in the Age of DiscoveryAuthor: Simon Park General & world history Published on 25 June 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom. Paperback 320 pages 197 x 129 x 22 228g Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. 'Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fairly spark off each other. It could be a model for how academics

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