A Taste for Empire and Glory: Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1600û1800

by Lawson,Philip

• ISBN13: 9780860786368
• ISBN10: 0860786366
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

In the decade and a half before his untimely death at 46, Philip Lawson had already achieved more than many historians. This posthumously published collection brings together his work on the British overseas expansion during the 'long' 18th century and includes two previously unpublished essays. The first articles deal with general issues of approach and interpretation, with Canada and the thirteen colonies, and with India and the empire of tea. The final essays illustrate Anglo-Indian relations and the tea trade, showing the relationship between the establishment of Indian tea plantations, the growth of the tea trade, and the political and cultural impact of tea drinking on the British and their colonists. Taken together these studies make an outstanding contribution to the field, important to anyone interested in the history of Hanoverian Britain as an imperial power.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix-xi	(2)
Acknowledgements	xii	(1)
Philip Lawson's Major Publications, 1980-1995	xiii-xiv	(1)
PART ONE: MANIFESTOS AND CONTEXTS
I The Missing Link: The Imperial Dimension in Understanding Hanoverian Britain The Historical Journal XXIX. Cambridge, 1986	747-751	(4)
II Hanoverian Studies: The Impact of Recent Trends on Parliamentary History Parliamentary History VII. Gloucester, 1988	130-138	(8)
III `Arts and Empire Equally Extend': Tradition, Prejudice and Assumption in the Eighteenth-Century Press Coverage of Empire Journal of History and Politics VII. Lewiston, NY, 1989	119-146	(27)
PART TWO: THE TRUE NORTH
IV `The Irishman's Prize': Views of Canada from the British Press, 1760-1774 The Historical Journal XXVII. Cambridge, 1985	575-596	(21)
V A Perspective on British History and the Treatment of Quebec Journal of Historical Sociology III. Oxford, 1990	253-271	(18)
VI `Sapped by Corruption': British Governance of Quebec and the Breakdown of Anglo-American Relations on the Eve of Revolution Canadian Review of American Studies XXII. Calgary, 1991	301-323	(22)
PART THREE: THE THIRTEEN COLONIES
VII George Grenville and America: The Years of Opposition, 1765-1770 The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series XXXVII. Williamsburg, VA, 1980	561-576	(15)
VIII British Traditions and Revolutionary America The Canadian Review of American Studies XIV. Calgary, 1983	165-173	(8)
IX Anatomy of a Civil War: New Perspectives on England in the Age of the American Revolution, 1767-82 Parliamentary History XIII. Gloucester, 1989	142-152	(10)
PART FOUR: INDIA AND THE COMPANY
X Parliament and the First East India Inquiry, 1767 Parliamentary History Yearbook I. Gloucester, 1983	99-114	(15)
XI Robert Clive, the `Black Jagir', and British Politics [in collaboration with Professor Bruce Lenman] The Historical Journal XXVI. Cambridge, 1983	801-829	(28)
XII `Our Execrable Banditti': Perceptions of Nabobs in mid Eighteenth-Century Britain [in collaboration with Dr Jim Philips] Albion XVI. Boone, NC, 1984	225-241	(16)
PART FIVE: THE EMPIRE OF TEA
XIII Sources, Schools and Separation: The Many Faces of Parliament's Role in Anglo-American History to 1783 The Atlantic Empire, ed. P. Lawson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995	5-27	(22)
XIV Tea, Vice and the English State, 1660-1784 First Publication	1-21	(20)
XV Women and the Empire of Tea: Image and Counter-image in Hanoverian England First Publication	1-19	(18)
Index	1-10	(9)