Table of Contents

1: Nicholas Canny: The Origins of Empire: An Introduction
2: Anthony Pagden: The Struggle for Legitimacy and the Image of Empire in the Atlantic to c. 1700
3: John Appleby: War, Politics, and Colonization 1558-1625
4: N. A. M. Rodger: Guns and Sails in the First Phase of English Colonization 1500-1650
5: Jane Ohlmeyer: 'Civilizing of those Rude Partes': Colonization within Britain and Ireland 1580s-1640s
6: Nicholas Canny: England's New Word and the Old 1480s-1630s
7: James Horn: Tobacco Colonies: The Shaping of English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
8: Virginia DeJohn Anderson: New England in the Seventeenth Century
9: Hilary McD Beckles: The Hub of Empire: The Caribbean and Britain the Seventeenth Century
10: P. E. H. Hair: The English in Western Africa to 1700
11: P. J. Marshall: The English in Asia to 1700
12: David Armitage: Literature and Empire
13: Michael Braddick: The English Government, War, Trade, and Settlement 1625-1688
14: T. C. Barnard: New Opportunities for British Settlement: Ireland 1650-1700
15: Peter C. Mancell: Native Americans and Europeans in English America 1500-1700
16: Ned Landman: The Middle Colonies: New Opportunities for Settlement 1660-1700
17: Robert Weir: `Shaftesbury's Darling': British Settlement in the Carolinas at the Close of the Seventeenth Century
18: Nuala Zahedieh: Overseas Expansion and Trade in the Seventeenth Century
19: Jonathan I Israel: The Emerging Emprire: The Continental Perspective 1650-1715
20: Richard S. Dunn: The Glorious Revolution and America
21: G. E. Aylmer: Navy, State, Trade, and Empire

About the Author

Nicholas Canny is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Reviews

`Oxford University Press has recently published a wide variety of historical titles in paperback. Pride of place must go to the five volume Oxford History of the British Empire written under the general editorship of Professor William Roger Lewis and published in hardback in 1998. The five volumes, describe the history and effect of the Empire on world history. The scholars who contributed and the volumes' individual editors all deserve high praise for
thie massive undertaking.'
Contemporary Review
`this is an extremely useful volume, and it will be the principal reference work for many years to come. The crisp and apparently effortless summaries of existing scholarship reveal an extra-ordinarily high level of meticulousness.'
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Journal of American History, June 00.
`Review from previous edition this is an extremely useful volume, and it will be the principal reference work for many years to come. The crisp and apparently effortless summaries of existing scholarship reveal an extraordinarily high level of meticulousness.'
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Journal of American History