The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century,9780198205623

The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

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ISBN13: 9780198205623
ISBN10: 0198205627
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-09-03
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on every part of the world that was substantially affected by British colonial activity. As late as 1630, involvement with regions beyond the traditional confines of Europe was still tentative; by 1690 it had

Author Biography


Nicholas Canny is Professor of History at University College, Galway.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
xv(1)
List of Figures
xvi(1)
List of Tables
xvi(1)
List of Contributors xvii(3)
Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources xx
1. The Origins of Empire: An Introduction
1(33)
Nicholas Canny
2. The Struggle for Legitimacy and the Image of Empire in the Atlantic to c.1700
34(21)
Anthony Pagden
3. War, Politics, and Colonization, 1558-1625
55(24)
John C. Appleby
4. Guns and Sails in the First Phase of English Colonization, 1500-1650
79(20)
N.A.M. Rodger
5. Literature and Empire
99(25)
David Armitage
6. `Civilizinge of those rude partes': Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580s-1640s
124(24)
Jane H. Ohlmeyer
7. England's New World and the Old, 1480s-1630s
148(22)
Nicholas Canny
8. Tobacco Colonies: The Shaping of English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
170(23)
James Horn
9. New England in the Seventeenth Century
193(25)
Virginia DeJohn Anderson
10. The 'Hub of Empire': the Caribbean and Britain in the Seventeenth Century
218(23)
Hilary McD. Beckles
11. The English in Western Africa to 1700
241(23)
P.E.H. Hair and Robin Law
12. The English in Asia to 1700
264(22)
P.J. Marshall
13. The English Government, War, Trade, and Settlement, 1625-1688
286(23)
Michael J. Braddick
14. New Opportunities for British Settlement: Ireland, 1650-1700
309(19)
T.C. Barnard
15. Native Americans and Europeans in English America, 1500-1700
328(23)
Peter C. Mancall
16. The Middle Colonies: New Opportunities for Settlement, 1660-1700
351(24)
Ned C. Landsman
17. `Shaftesbury's Darling': British Settlement in the Carolinas at the Close of the Seventeenth Century
375(23)
Robert M. Weir
18. Overseas Expansion and Trade in the Seventeenth Century
398(25)
Nuala Zahedieh
19. The Emerging Empire: The Continental Perspective, 1650-1713
423(22)
Jonathan I. Israel
20. The Glorious Revolution and America
445(22)
Richard S. Dunn
21. Navy, State, Trade, and Empire
467(15)
G.E. Aylmer
Chronology 482(25)
Index 507

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