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The Oxford History of the British Empire
Volume II: The Eighteenth Century
Edited by P. J. Marshall
Assistant editor: Alaine Low
Editor-in-Chief: Wm. Roger Louis
662 pages
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13 maps, 2 figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-820563-0
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Hardback
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28 May 1998
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- A full and absorbing study of the momentous imperial events of the eighteenth century
- From the War of Jenkins's Ear to the War of American Independence
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. The international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyse 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.
series blurb The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. It deals with the interaction of British and non-western societies from the Elizabethan era to the late twentieth century, aiming to provide a balanced treatment of the ruled as well as the rulers, and to take into account the significance of the Empire for the peoples of the British Isles. It explores economic and social trends as well as political.Readership: Readers interested in the history
and legacy of the British Empire; historians of Empire and Commonwealth.
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Edited by P. J. Marshall, Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, University of London Assistant editor: Alaine Low
Editor-in-Chief: Wm. Roger Louis
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"An impressive achievement ... For information on the evolution of British naval strategy, power relations in Indian country, or changing patterns in the Atlantic slave trade, The Eighteenth Century is an invaluable resource." - English Historical Review "Meticulously planned and flawlessly executed, providing texts that are both scholarly and accessible. The combination of thematic chapters on the empire as a whole, and regional ones on particular parts of it, is especially effective ... Another notable feature is the objectivity and sensitivity with which the contributors handle emotive and controversial subjects." - Simon C. Smith, Times Higher Education Supplement "Splendid and endlessly
fascinating history of the most splendid and fascinating of all empires ... this looks like becoming a useful and generally very fair survey which should help even academics distinguish between the ethics of the British in search of empire and those of, let us say, the French ... this does what a serious history should do, and allows the reader to come to his own conclusions." - Philip Hensher, Spectator "Professor Louis himself is not merely supremely well qualified on grounds of scholarship, but is also a man of integrity, generosity of mind and, above all, wisdom. These first two of what is to be a five-volume History will surely put at rest any lingering fears that the work might be prejudiced or in any other way inadequate ... the Oxford History will be
something that most general readers will like to have on their shelves and consult from time to time ... If the rest of the work is carried out with similar authority, with the same magisterial design and craftmanship in the detail, this will be an achievement of which the editors and the University Press can be properly proud." - Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph
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List of Contributors; List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations
1: P. J. Marshall: Introduction
2: James Horn: British Diaspora: Emigration from Britain 1680-1815
3: Patrick K. O'Brien: Inseparable Connections: Trade, Economy, Fiscal State, and the Expansion of Empire 1688-1815
4: Jacob M. Price: The Imperial Economy 1700-1776
5: Ian K. Steele: The Anointed, the Appointed, and the Elected: Governance of the British Empire 1689-1784
6: Boyd Stanley Schlenther: Religious Faith and Commercial Empire
7: Bruce P. Lenman: Colonial Wars and Imperial Instability 1688-1793
8: N. A. M. Rodger: Sea-Power and Empire 1688-1793
9: Michael Duffy: World-Wide War and British Expansion 1793-1815
10: Jack P. Greene: Empire and Identity from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution
11: Richard Drayton: Knowledge and Empire
12: Thomas Bartlett: `This Famous Island Set in a Virginian Sea': Ireland in the British Empire 1690-1801
13: Richard R. Johnson: Growth and Mastery: British North America 1690-1748
14: John Shy: The American Colonies in War and Revolution 1748-1783
15: Stephen Conway: Britain and the Reovlutionary Crisis 1763-1791
16: Daniel K. Richter: Native Peoples of North America and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
17: Peter Marshall: British North America
18: Richard B. Sheridan: The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society 1689-1748
19: J. R. Ward: The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition 1748-1815
20: David Richardson: The British Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade 1660-1807
21: Philip D. Morgan: The Black Experience in the British Empire 1680-1810
22: P. J. Marshall: The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion 1700-1765
23: Rajat Kanta Ray: Indian Society and the Establishment of British Supremacy 1765-1818
24: J. V. Bowen: British India 1765-1813: The Metropolitan Context
25: Glyndwr Williams: The Pacific: Exploration and Exploitation
26: P. J. Marshall: Britain without America; A Second Empire?
Chronology; Index
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