The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume II: The Eighteenth CenturyVolume II: The Eighteenth Century

by Marshall, P. J.

• ISBN13: 9780199246779
• ISBN10: 0199246777
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191647352
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 was the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. The international team of experts deploys 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 was to dominate the world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author Biography

P. J. Marshall is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History at the University of London.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	xv
List of Figures	xvi
List of Tables	xvii
Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources	xviii
List of Contributors	xix
Introduction	1	(27)
P. J. Marshall
British Diaspora: Emigration from Britain, 1680--1815	28	(25)
James Horn
Inseparable Connections: Trade, Economy, Fiscal State, and the Expansion of Empire, 1688--1815	53	(25)
Patrick K. O'Brien
The Imperial Economy, 1700--1776	78	(27)
Jacob M. Price
The Anointed, the Appointed, and the Elected: Governance of the British Empire, 1689--1784	105	(23)
Ian K. Steele
Religious Faith and Commercial Empire	128	(23)
Boyd Stanley Schlenther
Colonial Wars and Imperial Instability, 1688--1793	151	(18)
Bruce P. Lenman
Sea-Power and Empire, 1688--1793	169	(15)
N. A. M. Rodger
World-Wide War and British Expansion, 1793--1815	184	(24)
Michael Duffy
Empire and Identity from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution	208	(23)
Jack P. Greene
Knowledge and Empire	231	(22)
Richard Drayton
'This famous island set in a Virginian sea': Ireland in the British Empire, 1690--1801	253	(23)
Thomas Bartlett
Growth and Mastery: British North America, 1690--1748	276	(24)
Richard R. Johnson
The American Colonies in War and Revolution, 1748--1783	300	(25)
John Shy
Britain and the Revolutionary Crisis, 1763--1791	325	(22)
Stephen Conway
Native Peoples of North America and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire	347	(25)
Daniel K. Richter
British North America, 1760--1815	372	(22)
Peter Marshall
The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society, 1689--1748	394	(21)
Richard B. Sheridan
The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition, 1748--1815	415	(25)
J. R. Ward
The British Empire and the Atlantic Salve Trade, 1660--1807	440	(25)
David Richardson
The Black Experience in the British Empire, 1680--1810	465	(22)
Philip D. Morgan
The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700--1765	487	(21)
P. J. Marshall
Indian Society and the Establishment of British Supermacy, 1765--1818	508	(22)
Rajat Kanta Ray
British India, 1765--1813; The Metropolitan Context	530	(22)
H. V. Bowen
The Pacific: Exploration and Exploitation	552	(24)
Glyndwr Williams
Britain Without America--A Second Empire?	576	(20)
P. J. Marshall
Chronology	596	(15)
Index	611