A History of Britain, Volume 2 (82 page)

Bayly, C.A.
et al
. (eds.),
The Raj: India and the British, 1600–1947
(Nat. Portrait Gallery 1990)

Bayly, Susan,
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
(CUP 1999)

Beckles, Hilary,
A History of Barbados
(CUP 1990)

Blackburn, Robin,
The Making of New World Slavery. From the Baroque to the Modern
1492–1800 (Verso, 1997)

Butler, Jon,
Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776
(Harvard UP 2000)

Canny, N. (ed.),
The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. 1
(OUP 1998)

Chaudhuri, S. (ed.),
Calcutta: The Living City, Vol. 1: The Past
(OUP 1990)

Cohn, Bernard S.,
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge. The British in India
(Princeton 1996)

Conway, Stephen,
The British Isles and the War of American Independence
(OUP 2000)

Cook, Don,
The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760–1785
(Atlantic Monthly Press 1995)

Dickinson, H.T. (ed.),
Britain and the American Revolution
(Longman 1998)

Draper, T.,
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution
(Abacus 1997)

Dunn, Richard S.,
Sugar and Slaves
.
The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies 1625–1713
(Norton 1973)

Games, Alison,
Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
(Harvard UP 1999)

George, Dorothy M.,
English Political Caricature to 1792
(Clarendon Press 1959)

Greene, Jack P.,
The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800
(University of North Carolina Press 1993)

Handler, J. S., and Lange, E W.,
Plantation Slavery in Barbados
(Harvard UP 1978)

Harvey, Robert,
Clive: The Life and Death of a British Emperor
(Hodder and Stoughton 1998)

Hibbert, C.,
Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes
(Avon 1990)

Inikori, Joseph E., and Engerman, Stanley L. (eds.),
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas and Europe
(Duke UP 1992)

James, L.,
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
(Abacus 1997)

Keay, John,
The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company
(HarperCollins 1991)

Labarée, Benjamin Woods,
The Boston Tea Party
(OUP 1964)

Lawson, Philip,
The East India Company: A History
(Longman 1987)

Maier, Pauline,
American Scripture. Making the Declaration of Independence
(Random House 1997)

Maier, Pauline,
From Resistance to Revolution. Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776
(Routledge & Kegan Paul 1973)

Marshall, P. J.,
Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India, 1740–1828
(CUP 1987)

Marshall, P. J. (ed.),
The Eighteenth Century: The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol 2
(OUP 1998)

Marshall, P. J.,
Trade and Conquest: Studies on the Rise of British Dominance in India
(Variorum 1993)

Mintz, S. W.,
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
(Penguin 1985)

Mintz, S. W.,
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom. Excursions into Eating, Culture and the Past
(Beacon 1996)

Moorhouse, G.,
Calcutta
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1971)

Padfield, P.,
Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind
(Pimlico, 2000)

Pagden, Anthony,
Lords of All the World, Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c. 1500–1800
(Yale UP 1995)

Peters, Marie,
The Elder Pitt
(Longman 1998)

Pocock, Tom,
Battle for Empire: The Very First World War, 1756–63
(Michael O'Mara 1998)

Sandiford, Keith, A.,
The Cultural Politics of Sugar. Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism
(CUP 2000)

Sheridan, R. B.
Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623–1775
(Caribbean UP 1974)

Sinha, N.K.,
The Economic History of Bengal from Plassey to the Permanent Settlement
, 2 vols (Calcutta 1956 and 1962)

Spear, Percival,
The Nabobs: A Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth-century India
(OUP 1998)

Walvin, James,
Black Ivory: A History of Slavery
(HarperCollins 1992)

Walvin, James,
Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora
(Cassell 2000)

Walvin, James,
Questioning Slavery
(Routledge 1996)

Weller, Jac,
Wellington in India
(Longman 1972)

Wickwire, F. and M.,
Cornwallis: The Imperial Years
(University of North Carolina Press 1980)

Wild, A.,
The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600
(HarperCollins 2000)

Young, Alfred E,
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party. Memory and the American Revolution
(Beacon 1999)

Zobel, Hiller,
The Boston Massacre
(Norton 1970)

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Abbey Dore 67–9

Abbot, George 35, 84

Abel, John 68

Abercromby, General 358

Aberdeen, sack of 125

Adam, Robert 315–16

Adams, John 369, 374, 378, 384

Adams, Sam 368, 370, 374, 378–9
passim
, 382, 383

Addison, Richard 285, 293

‘Agreement of the People' 135, 151, 154–5

agriculture 292–3, 312

Ahmed Shah Durrani 404

Aislabie, John 288

Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of 346, 397

Akbar I 395, 421

Alfred the Great 64, 317, 319–20
passim
, 322

Aliens Act 274

Alivardi Khan, nawab of Bengal 397, 400

America, North 31, 72, 83, 191, 262, 313, 325–28, 346, 348–3
passim
, 354–60, 366–86, 387–8, 405, 413

Declaration of Independence 362, 385

Indians 350–1, 356, 357, 360, 366

New England 83, 191, 245, 349, 352, 366–8, 385
see also
Boston

Ohio country 351–3, 355

and taxation 366–75, 380, 381, 387

War of Independence 473–7, 480

Amherst, Gen. Jeffrey 357–60
passim
, 361

Andrewes, Lancelot 35, 55, 67

Andros, Sir Edmund 245

Anne of Denmark 25, 36, 37

Anne, Princess 232–3, 247, 258

Queen 274, 282, 321

Antigua 324, 341, 342

Arcot, siege of 399

Arlington, Lord 233, 234

Arminius, Jacob 56

army 77, 85–7, 123–4, 126–7, 129–32, 133–4, 148–9, 151–2, 154–5, 180, 181, 201–2, 253, 255, 258, 261, 277, 313, 323, 366

Arne, Thomas 317, 319–20, 323

Ashley Cooper, Anthony, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury 185–6, 188, 201, 233, 236–46
passim
, 252

Astley, Sir Jacob 112, 127

Aston, Sir Arthur 167, 169

Aubrey, John 17, 142, 143, 144

Audley End 39, 41

Augusta, Princess 363

Aurangzeb I 395, 396

Bacon, Francis 19, 28, 41, 50, 63, 321

Baillie, Robert 89

Baksar, battle of 404

Balfour, Sir William 112

Banqueting House, Whitehall 33, 138

Barbados 331–4, 341–4
passim
, 346, 363

Barbon, Praisegod 185

Barré, Isaac 370

Barwell, Richard 409

Basing House 16, 128

Bastwick, John 80, 81, 87

Baxter, Richard 334

Becher, Richard 406

Beckford, William 301, 344, 348

Bedford, Earl of 66, 83, 87, 92

Benburb, battle of 124, 126

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo 225, 228

Berwick-on-Tweed, Pacification of 77–8

Bible 35

Bill of Rights 59, 323, 381, 385

bishops 25, 29, 35, 45, 71–2
passim
, 73, 74, 75, 84, 88, 94, 150, 211–12, 255
see also individual entries

Blair, Robert 72, 73

Blake, Admiral 178

Bludworth, Sir Thomas 217, 218

Bohemia 48, 49

Bolton, massacre 16

Bonaparte, Napoleon 420

Booth, Col. George 202

Boscawen, Admiral 356

Boston 368–9, 371–4, 376–9

Boulton, Matthew 314

Boyle, Robert 192, 215

Boyne, battle of the 253, 264

Braddock, General 353–4, 356, 357

Bradshaw, John 137, 138, 159, 176, 208, 210

Brampton Bryan 108–9, 118–19

Brazil 330, 331

Breadalbane, Earl of 266, 267

Breda, Declaration of 210

Bristol 117, 128, 344

Britain 13, 18, 21, 22, 120, 139, 263, 264, 275, 276, 277

Empire 268, 313, 324–422
passim

Broghill, Lord 192, 203

Brooke, Lord 77, 82, 83, 87, 88, 94, 111, 113

Buchanan, George 24, 25, 36

Buckeridge, John 55

Buckingham
see
Villiers

Burke, Edmund 386, 388, 391, 406, 412–13
passim

Burton, Dr Henry 80, 81, 87

Bute, Lord 363, 366

Byng, Admiral 356

Calvinists 22–5, 35, 36, 45, 56, 69–73
passim
, 74, 85, 89, 93, 157, 211

Camden, William 13, 18, 21, 22, 31, 49

Cameron of Lochiel 303–4

Campbell, Archibald, 8th Earl of Argyll 95, 125, 126, 129, 173

Florence 16

John, 4th Earl of Loudoun 355, 356

Canada 346, 349, 350, 354, 355–7, 359–61, 362, 366, 379

Quebec Act 379

Capel, Lord Arthur 152

Carew, Sir Alexander 104, 116

Caribbean 83, 194, 231, 325, 332–3, 340, 343–4, 345, 348–9, 359, 363

Carleton, Sir Dudley 82

Carr, Robert 42, 43–5

Carteret, Sir George 214

Carteret, John 289, 318, 347

Castlemaine, Lady 213

Catesby, Robert 36–7

Catherine of Braganza 221, 232, 393

Catholics 33, 35–7
passim
, 49, 55, 230–1, 232–42
passim
, 247, 248–9, 250–2, 323

Cecil, Robert 27, 36, 37, 40, 41, 63

Chalgrove Field, battle of 119

Chanda Sahib 398, 399

Charles I 15, 18, 41, 49–140, 230, 323

and civil war 109–29

Eikon Basilike
145–7
passim

family 64–5, 136

ideology 64–5, 94–5, 135–6, 139–40

and parliament 53–7, 59–62, 79, 85–8, 99–102, 109–29, 135–8, 146–7, 177

and Scotland 71–3, 85, 86, 95, 127, 129, 134

trial 136–8

Charles II 109–10, 135–6, 143, 144, 148, 165, 172–5, 202, 206–48, 249, 250, 333

and Catholicism 233, 246

court 213, 232, 246

Charles Edward Stuart 173, 302–12
passim
, 315

Charnock, Job 401

Chesterfield, Earl of 289, 296

Chidley, Katherine 153

Child, Josiah 393, 395–7
passim

China 422

chocolate 328

Church of England 34–5, 66–7, 68–9, 145, 211–12, 231, 235, 243, 249, 251, 281

Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough 253, 259, 321

Clarendon
see
Hyde

Clarkson, Laurence 157

Clavering, Lt-Gen. John 409

Clifford, Thomas 233, 234

Clinton, Gen. Sir Henry 387–8

Clinton, Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln 57

Clive, Robert 346, 356, 359, 398–9, 402–8
passim
, 422

Clotworthy, Sir John 90

clubs 237, 280, 293

Cobham
see
Temple

Codrington, Christopher 344

coffee 328; -houses 237, 280, 293

Coke, Sir Edward 26, 27

Coleman, Edward 240

Commonwealth 141–88, 202–5, 242

Compton, Bishop Henry 251

constables 65, 86, 195

Cook, James 323

Cook, John 137

Cope, Lt-Gen. Sir John 304, 305

Coram, Thomas 298–9

Foundling Hospital 299–300

Cornwallis, Earl 385–8
passim
, 391, 413–17
passim

Coryton, William 57, 58, 104

Council of Officers 185, 187

Council of State 187–8, 190, 193

Covenant, National 74–5, 134, 172

Covenanters 23, 75–6, 79, 82, 84–6
passim
, 95, 119, 124–6, 134, 173

Cowper, William 334

Craig, James 315

Cranfield, Lionel 48, 52, 63

Croke, Judge George 81

Cromwell, Henry 192, 202

Oliver 89, 119–24
passim
, 127–8, 130, 134–7, 138, 140, 146, 147, 149–52
passim
, 155, 160–99, 204, 208, 210, 230, 231, 242, 250, 322, 333

as general 164

ideology 122–4

and Ireland 165–72

and kingship 180–1, 188, 197

as Lord Protector 187, 188–98

and parliament 165, 178–86

and Scotland 173–4

Richard 193, 201, 202

Culloden, battle of 309–10, 311

Cumberland, Duke of 307–10
passim
, 353

Curzon, Nathaniel, 1st Baron Scarsdale 315

Dalrymple, John, Master of Stair 267

Danby, Lord 235–7, 240, 242, 245, 247, 249, 253, 257, 258

Darien expedition 269–75, 313

Davies, Sir John 32

Dawes, William 382

Debt, National 277, 287

Declaration of Rights 261

Declarations of Indulgence 212, 231, 234–5, 252, 255, 257, 258

Defoe, Daniel 216, 270, 274, 275, 283, 297, 313, 334

Dekker, Thomas 19–22
passim