The Origins of Empire

The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume 1


TypeNon-Fiction
EditorNicholas Canny
PublisherOxford
First Published1998
ISBN No.0198205627




Chapter 1Nicholas CannyIntroduction
Chapter 2Anthony PagdenThe Struggle for Legitimacy and the Imange of Empire in the Atlantic to c1700
Chapter 3John ApplebyWar, Politics, and Colonization, 1558 - 1625
Chapter 4N RogerGuns and Sails in the First Phase of English Colonization, 1500 - 1650
Chapter 5David ArmitageLiterature and Empire
Chapter 6Jane Ohlmeyer'Civilizinge of those rude partes': Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580s - 1640s
Chapter 7Nicholas CannyEngland's New World and the Old, 1480s - 1630s
Chapter 8James HornTobacco Colonies: The Shaping of English Society in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake
Chapter 9Virginia DeJohn AndersonNew England in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 10Hilary McD BecklesThe 'Hub of Empire': the Caribbean and Britain in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 11P Hair and Robin LawThe English in Western Africa to 1700
Chapter 12P. J. MarshallThe English in Asia to 1700
Chapter 13Michael J BraddickThe English Government, War, Trade, and Settlement, 1625 - 1688
Chapter 14T. C. BarnardNew Opportunities for British Settlement: Ireland, 1650-1700
Chapter 15Peter MancallNative Americans and Europeans in English America, 1500 - 1700
Chapter 16Ned LandsmanThe Middle Colonies: New Opportunities for Settlement, 1660 - 1700
Chapter 17Robert Weir'Shaftesbury's Darling': British Settlement in the Carolinas at the Close of the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 18Nuala ZahediehOverseas Expansion and Trade in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 19Jonanthon IsraelThe Emerging Empire: The Continental Perspective, 1650 - 1713
Chapter 20Richard DunnThe Glorious Revolution and America
Chapter 21G. E. AylmerNavy, State, Trade and Empire


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