Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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

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
`a set of authors with impeccable credentials ... provide ... systematic overviews.'
Miles Ogborn, Journal of Historical Geography, 26, 3.
`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.'
Kenneth Morgan, Jnl of Imperial and Commonwealth History.