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Zusatztext Review from previous edition readers can be assured of solid summaries of the state-of-play on the various specialist topics covered. This is a fine volume that gives British imperial historians plenty to consider. Informationen zum Autor P. J. Marshall is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History at the University of London. Klappentext Continuing Oxford's five-volume comprehensive history of the British Empire! Volume II examines the history of British 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. 13 maps. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
