The Eighteenth Century

Name: The Eighteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780199246779

ISBN-10: 0199246777

ISBN-13: 9780199246779

Edition: 2001

Authors: P. J. Marshall, Wm. Roger Louis

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Volume II of The Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. An international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyze development and expansion over more than a century. They show how trade, warfare, and migration created an Empire, at first overwhelmingly in the Americas but later increasingly in Asia. Although the Empire was ruptured by the American Revolution, it survived and grew into the British Empire that…

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List price: $78.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 664
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



List of Contributors


List of Maps


List of Figures


List of Tables


Abbreviations



Introduction




British Diaspora: Emigration from Britain 1680-1815




Inseparable Connections: Trade, Economy, Fiscal State, and the Expansion of Empire 1688-1815




The Imperial Economy 1700-1776




The Anointed, the Appointed, and the Elected: Governance of the British Empire 1689-1784




Religious Faith and Commercial Empire




Colonial Wars and Imperial Instability 1688-1793




Sea-Power and Empire 1688-1793




World-Wide War and British Expansion 1793-1815




Empire and Identity from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution




Knowledge and Empire




`This Famous Island Set in a Virginian Sea': Ireland in the British Empire 1690-1801




Growth and Mastery: British North America 1690-1748




The American Colonies in War and Revolution 1748-1783




Britain and the Reovlutionary Crisis 1763-1791




Native Peoples of North America and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire




British North America




The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society 1689-1748




The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition 1748-1815




The British Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade 1660-1807




The Black Experience in the British Empire 1680-1810




The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion 1700-1765




Indian Society and the Establishment of British Supremacy 1765-1818




British India 1765-1813: The Metropolitan Context




The Pacific: Exploration and Exploitation




Britain without America; A Second Empire?



Chronology


Index