Volume II: The Eighteenth Century

by P. J. Marshall (Editor), Wm. Roger Louis (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191647352
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	05/28/1998
Series:	The Oxford History of the British Empire
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

List of Contributors; List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations
1. Introduction, P. J. Marshall
2. British Diaspora: Emigration from Britain 1680-1815, James Horn
3. Inseparable Connections: Trade, Economy, Fiscal State, and the Expansion of Empire 1688-1815, Patrick K. O'Brien
4. The Imperial Economy 1700-1776, Jacob M. Price
5. The Anointed, the Appointed, and the Elected: Governance of the British Empire 1689-1784, Ian K. Steele
6. Religious Faith and Commercial Empire, Boyd Stanley Schlenther
7. Colonial Wars and Imperial Instability 1688-1793, Bruce P. Lenman
8. Sea-Power and Empire 1688-1793, N. A. M. Rodger
9. World-Wide War and British Expansion 1793-1815, Michael Duffy
10. Empire and Identity from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution, Jack P. Greene
11. Knowledge and Empire, Richard Drayton
12. 'This Famous Island Set in a Virginian Sea': Ireland in the British Empire 1690-1801, Thomas Bartlett
13. Growth and Mastery: British North America 1690-1748, Richard R. Johnson
14. The American Colonies in War and Revolution 1748-1783, John Shy
15. Britain and the Reovlutionary Crisis 1763-1791, Stephen Conway
16. Native Peoples of North America and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire, Daniel K. Richter
17. British North America, Peter Marshall
18. The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society 1689-1748, Richard B. Sheridan
19. The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition 1748-1815, J. R. Ward
20. The British Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade 1660-1807, David Richardson
21. The Black Experience in the British Empire 1680-1810, Philip D. Morgan
22. The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion 1700-1765, P. J. Marshall
23. Indian Society and the Establishment of British Supremacy 1765-1818, Rajat Kanta Ray
24. British India 1765-1813: The Metropolitan Context, J. V. Bowen
25. The Pacific: Exploration and Exploitation, Glyndwr Williams
26. Britain without America; A Second Empire?, P. J. Marshall
Chronology; Index

Editorial Reviews

"The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century, vol. 2, provides a good overview of the British empire in the eighteenth century. It would be a welcome addition to any upper-level class on the history of the British empire."—Sixteenth Century Journal

"It must be said immediately that its first two volumes get The Oxford History of the British Empire off to a strong start. Both books consist of essays that break new ground and do so with a confidence based on extensive research and with refreshing lucidity and frankness...These two books are likely to shock some of their readers. For example, the sentimentalized and idealized version of American history, which luxuriates in popular works and is more subtly present in much academic history, finds no favor with the contributors to these volumes." -Conor Cruise O'Brien in The New York Review of Books

"The first two volumes of this five-volume history of the British Empire establish a very high standard of scholarship....Recommended for all libraries."—Library Journal

"Magisterial design and craftsmanship in the detail"—Dailys Telegraph (London)

"Magnificent...Taken together, these books constitute an extraordinary feat of organization and scholarship, and they provide the authoritative history of the British Empire for our generation, and the essential starting point of the re-writing of that history which will take place in the next generation. Opinions differ about the British Empire; there can be no disagreement about this superb history of it." —David Cannadine in The Times Literary Supplement

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