Table of Contents
List of Contributors; List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations1. The Origins of Empire: An Introduction, Nicholas Canny2. The Struggle for Legitimacy and the Image of Empire in the Atlantic to c.1700, Anthony Pagden3. War, Politics, and Colonization 1558-1625, John Appleby4. Guns and Sails in the First Phase of English Colonization 1500-1650, N. A. M. Rodger5. ‘Civilizing of those Rude Partes': Colonization within Britain and Ireland 1580s-1640s, Jane Ohlmeyer6. England's New Word and the Old 1480s-1630s, Nicholas Canny7. Tobacco Colonies: The Shaping of English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake, James Horn8. New England in the Seventeenth Century, Virginia DeJohn Anderson9. The Hub of Empire: The Caribbean and Britain in the Seventeenth Century, Hilary McD. Beckles10. The English in Western Africa to 1700, P. E. H. Hair11. The English in Asia to 1700, P. J. Marshall12. Literature and Empire, David Armitage13. The English Government, War, Trade, and Settlement 1625-1688, Michael Braddick14. New Opportunities for British Settlement: Ireland 1650-1700, T. C. Barnard15. Native Americans and Europeans in English America 1500-1700, Peter C. Mancall16. The Middle Colonies: New Opportunities for Settlement 1660-1700, Ned Landsman17. ‘Shaftesbury's Darling': British Settlement in the Carolinas at the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Robert Weir18. Overseas Expansion and Trade in the Seventeenth Century, Nuala Zahedieh19. The Emerging Emprire: The Continental Perspective 1650-1715, Jonathan I. Israel20. The Glorious Revolution and America, Richard S. Dunn21. Navy, State, Trade, and Empire, G. E. AylmerChronology; Index