The Eighteenth Century, Volume 2William Roger Louis, Alaine Low, Peter James Marshall Oxford University Press, 2001 - 664 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
British Diaspora Emigration from Britain 16801815 | 28 |
Inseparable Connections Trade Economy Fiscal State and the Expansion of Empire 16881815 | 53 |
The Imperial Economy 17001776 | 78 |
The Anointed the Appointed and the Elected Governance of the British Empire 16891784 | 105 |
Religious Faith and Commercial Empire | 128 |
Colonial Wars and Imperial Instability 16881793 | 151 |
SeaPower and Empire 16881793 | 169 |
Native Peoples of North America and the EighteenthCentury British Empire | 347 |
British North America 17601815 | 372 |
The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society 16891748 | 394 |
The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition 17481815 | 415 |
The British Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade 16601807 | 440 |
The Black Experience in the British Empire 16801810 | 465 |
The British in Asia Trade to Dominion 17001765 | 487 |
Indian Society and the Establishment of British Supremacy 17651818 | 508 |
WorldWide War and British Expansion 17931815 | 184 |
Empire and Identity from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution | 208 |
Knowledge and Empire | 231 |
This famous island set in a Virginian sea Ireland in the British Empire 16901801 | 253 |
Growth and Mastery British North America 16901748 | 276 |
The American Colonies in War and Revolution 17481783 | 300 |
Britain and the Revolutionary Crisis 17631791 | 325 |
British India 17651813 The Metropolitan Context | 530 |
The Pacific Exploration and Exploitation | 552 |
Britain Without AmericaA Second Empire? | 576 |
Chronology | 596 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Oxford History of the British Empire: The eighteenth century William Roger Louis,Alaine Low,Peter James Marshall Aucun aperçu disponible - 2001 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Africa American colonies American Revolution Anglican army Asia Assemblies Atlantic Atlantic Slave Trade Barbados became Bengal Britain British colonies British Empire British slave British West Indies Cambridge Canada Caribbean cent chap Chapel Hill Chesapeake coast colonists commercial Company's cultural Dutch East India Company economic eighteenth century emigration England English established Europe European expansion expedition exports force France French Glorious Revolution Governor History Imperial important increased industry Ireland Irish Iroquois islands Jamaica John labour land Leeward Islands liberty London Lord mainland major Marathas maritime merchants military ministers Mughal naval Navy Nova Scotia overseas Oxford Pacific Parliament parliamentary peace plantation planters political population ports Protestant Quebec religious revenue Royal Saint-Domingue Scottish settlement settlers Seven Years War seventeenth ships slave trade Slavery Society southern Spain Spanish strategy sugar territorial thirteen colonies tion tobacco troops Virginia vols voyages West Indian William York