The Oxford history of the British Empire. Volume II, The eighteenth century /
This volume examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It shows how trade, warfare, and migration created the Empire in the Americas and then in Asia.
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Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. British Diaspora: Emigration from Britain, 1680-1815; 3. Inseparable Connections: Trade, Economy, Fiscal State, and the Expansion of Empire, 1688-1815; 4. The Imperial Economy, 1700-1776; 5. The Anointed, the Appointed, and the Elected: Governance of the British Empire, 1689-1784; 6. Religious Faith and Commercial Empire; 7. Colonial Wars and Imperial Instability, 1688-1793; 8. Sea-Power and Empire, 1688-1793
- 9. World-Wide War and British Expansion, 1793-181510. Empire and Identity from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution; 11. Knowledge and Empire; 12. 'This famous island set in a Virginian sea': Ireland in the British Empire, 1690-1801; 13. Growth and Mastery: British North America, 1690-1748; 14. The American Colonies in War and Revolution, 1748-1783; 15. Britain and the Revolutionary Crisis, 1763-1791; 16. Native Peoples of North America and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire; 17. British North America, 1760-1815; 18. The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society, 1689-1748
- 19. The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition, 1748-181520. The British Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1660-1807; 21. The Black Experience in the British Empire, 1680-1810; 22. The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700-1765; 23. Indian Society and the Establishment of British Supremacy, 1765-1818; 24. British India, 1765-1813: The Metropolitan Context; 25. The Pacific: Exploration and Exploitation; 26. Britain Without America-A Second Empire?; Chronology; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z