The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

by Canny, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780199246762
• ISBN10: 0199246769
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on every part of the world that was substantially affected by British colonial activity. As late as 1630, involvement with regions beyond the traditional confines of Europe was still tentative; by 1690 it had

Author Biography

Nicholas Canny is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	xv
List of Figures	xvi
List of Tables	xvi
List of Contributors	xvii
Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources	xx
The Origins of Empire: An Introduction	1	(33)
Nicholas Canny
The Struggle for Legitimacy and the Image of Empire in the Atlantic to c. 1700	34	(21)
Anthony Pagden
War, Politics, and Colonization, 1558--1625	55	(24)
John C. Appleby
Guns and Sails in the First Phase of English Colonization, 1500--1650	79	(20)
N. A. M. Rodger
Literature and Empire	99	(25)
David Armitage
'Civilizinge of Those rude partes': Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580s--1640s	124	(24)
Jane H. Ohlmeyer
England's New World and the Old, 1480s--1630s	148	(22)
Nicholas Canny
Tobacco Colonies: The Shaping of English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake	170	(23)
James Horn
New England in the Seventeenth Century	193	(25)
Virginia DeJohn Anderson
The 'Hub of Empire': The Caribbean and Britain in the Seventeenth Century	218	(23)
Hilary McD. Backles
The English in Western Africa to 1700	241	(23)
P. E. H. Hair
Robin Law
The English in Asia to 1700	264	(22)
P. J. Marshall
The English Government, War, Trade, and Settlement, 1625--1688	286	(23)
Michael J. Braddick
New Opportunities for British Settlement: Ireland, 1650--1700	309	(19)
T. C. Barnard
Native Americans and Europeans in English America, 1500--1700	328	(23)
Peter C. Mancall
The Middle Colonies: New Opportunities for Settlement, 1660--1700	351	(24)
Ned C. Landsman
'Shaftesbury's Darling': British Settlement in the Carolinas at the Close of the Seventeenth Century	375	(23)
Robert M. Weir
Overseas Expansion and Trade in the Seventeenth Century	398	(25)
Naula Zahedieh
The Emerging Empire: The Continental Perspective, 1650--1713	423	(22)
Jonathan I. Israel
The Glorious Revolution and America	445	(22)
Richard S. Dunn
Navy, State, Trade, and Empire	467	(15)
G.E. Aylmer
Chronology	482	(25)
Index	507