James, Lawrence,
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
(London, 1994)
Judd, Denis,
Empire: The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present
(London, 1996)
Lloyd, Trevor,
Empire: The History of the British Empire
(London, 2001)
Maddison, Angus,
The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective
(Paris, 2001)
Marshall, P. J. (ed.),
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire
(Cambridge, 1996)
——(ed.),
The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. II: The Eighteenth Century
(Oxford/New York, 1998)
Morris, James,
Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress
(London, 1992 [1973])
——,
Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire
(London, 1992 [1968])
——,
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
(London, 1992 [1979])
Pagden, Anthony,
Peoples and Empires: Europeans and the Rest of the World, from Antiquity to the Present
(London, 2001)
Palmer, Alan,
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(London, 1996)
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Atlas of British Overseas Expansion
(London, 1991)
——(ed.),
The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III: The Nineteenth Century
(Oxford/New York, 1999)
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The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. V: Historiography
(Oxford/New York, 1999)
CHAPTER 1
Andrews, Kenneth R., ‘Drake and South America’, in Thrower, Norman J. W. (ed.),
Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577 – 1580
(Berkeley/Los Angeles /London, 1984), pp. 49 – 59
Armitage, David,
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
(Cambridge, 2000)
Barua, Pradeep, ‘Military Developments in India, 1750 – 1850’,
Journal of Military History
, 58/4 (1994), pp. 599 – 616
Bayly, C. A.,
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
(Cambridge, 1988)
——,
Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780 – 1830
(London, 1989)
Bernstein, Jeremy,
Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings
(London, 2001)
Boxer, C. R.,
The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600 – 1800
(London, 1965)
Brenner, Robert, ‘The Social Basis of English Commercial Expansion, 1550 – 1650’,
Journal of Economic History
, 32/1 (1972), pp. 361 – 84
Brigden, Susan,
New Worlds, Lost Worlds
(London, 2000)
Carlos, Ann M. and Nicholas, Stephen, ‘Agency Problems in Early Chartered Companies: The Case of the Hudson’s Bay Company’,
Journal of Economic History
, 50/4 (1990), pp. 853 – 75
Carnall, Geoffrey and Nicholson, Colin (eds.),
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: Papers from a Bicentenary Commemoration
(Edinburgh, 1989)
Cell, Gillian T. (ed.),
Newfoundland Discovered: English Attempts at Colonisation, 1610 – 1630
(London, 1982)
Chaudhuri, K. N.,
The English East India Company
(London, 1963)
——,
The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company
(Cambridge, 1978)
Cruikshank, E. A.,
The Life of Sir Henry Morgan, with an Account of the English Settlement of the Island of Jamaica, 1655 – 1688
(London/Basingstoke/ Toronto, 1935)
Dalton, Sir Cornelius Neale,
The Life of Thomas Pitt
(Cambridge, 1915)
Dickson, P. G. M.,
The Financial Revolution in England: A Study in the Development of Public Credit, 1688 – 1756
(London/Melbourne/ Toronto, 1967)
Edney, Matthew H.,
Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765 – 1843
(Chicago/ London, 1997)
Ehrman, John,
The Younger Pitt
, 3 vols. (London, 1969 – 1996)
Exquemlin, A. O., trans. Alexis Brown,
The Buccaneers of America. Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful Description of the Principal Acts of Depredation and Inhuman Cruelty Committed by the English and French Buccaneers against the Spaniards in America
(London, 1972)
Forrest, Denys,
Tea for the British: The Social and Economic History of a Famous Trade
(London, 1973)
Fraser, J. Baillie,
Military Memoirs of Lieut. Col. James Skinner, C.B.
(Mussoorie, 1955 [1856])
Hagen, Victor Wolfgang von,
The Gold of El Dorado: The Quest for the Golden Man
(London/Toronto/Sydney/New York, 1978)
Hakluyt, Richard, edited, abridged and introduced by Jack Beeching,
Voyages and Discoveries: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
(London, 1985 [1598 – 1600])
Heathcote, T. A.,
The Military in British India: The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600 – 1947
(Manchester/New York, 1995)
Hemming, John,
The Search for El Dorado
(London, 1978)
Hossein Khan, Sied Gholam,
The Seir Mutaqherin: or Review of Modern Times: Being an History of India, From the Year 1118 to the Year 1194
(Calcutta, 1903 [1789])
Irwin, Douglas A., ‘Mercantilism and Strategic Trade Policy: The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry for the East Indian Trade’,
Journal of Political Economy
, 99/6 (1991), pp. 1296 – 314
——, ‘Strategic Trade Policy and Mercantilist Trade Rivalries’,
American Economic Review
, 2 (1982), pp. 134 – 9
Kelsey, Harry,
Sir Francis Drake: The Queen’s Pirate
(New Haven/London, 1998)
Kennedy, Paul,
The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
(London, 1976)
Koehn, Nancy F.,
The Power of Commerce, Economy and Governance in the First British Empire
(Ithaca, New York, 1995)
Lemire, Beverly,
Fashion’s Favourite: The Cotton Trade and the Consumer in Britain, 1660 – 1800
(Oxford, 1991)
Lindsay, Philip,
Morgan in Jamaica: Being an Account Biographical and Informative of the Latter Days of Sir Henry Morgan, Admiral of Buccaneers, Captain of Privateers
...
also Twice Acting Governor of Jamaica
(London, 1930)
Lyte, Charles,
Sir Joseph Banks: 18th Century Explorer, Botanist and Entrepreneur
(Devon, 1980)
MacInnes, C. M.,
The Early English Tobacco Trade
(London, 1926)
Miller, David Philip and Reill, Peter Hanns (eds.),
Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature
(Cambridge/New York/Melbourne, 1996)
Neal, Larry,
The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason
(Cambridge, 1990)
Pagden, Anthony,
Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c. 1500 – c. 1800
(New Haven, 1996)
Parry, John H., ‘Drake and the World Encompassed’, in Thrower, Norman J. W. (ed.),
Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577 – 1580
(Berkeley/ Los Angeles/London, 1984), pp. 1 – 11
Pearson, N. M., ‘Shivaji and the Decline of the Mughal Empire’,
Journal of Asian Studies
, 35/2 (1976), pp. 221 – 35
Pillai, Anandaranga,
The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai, Dubash to Joseph Francois Dupleix: A Record of Matters Political, Historical, Social, and Personal, from 1736 to 1761
, 12 vols. (Madras, 1904)
Pocock, Tom,
Battle For Empire: The Very First World War, 1756 – 63
(London, 1998)
Pope, Dudley,
The Buccaneer King: The Biography of Sir Henry Morgan, 1635 – 1688
(New York, 1977)
Pope, Peter E.,
The Many Landfalls of John Cabot
(Toronto/Buffalo/London, 1997)
Price, Jacob M., ‘What Did Merchants Do? Reflections on British Over-seas Trade, 1660 – 1790’,
Journal of Economic History
, 49/2 (1989), pp. 267 – 84
Quinn, David Beers,
England and the Discovery of America, 1481 – 1620: From the Bristol Voyages of the Fifteen Century to the Pilgrim Settlement at Plymouth – The Exploration, Exploitation, and Trial-and-Error Colonization of North America by the English
(London, 1974)
Riddy, John, ‘Warren Hastings: Scotland’s Benefactor’, in G. Cornall and C. Nicholson,
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: Papers from a Bicentenary Commemoration
(Edinburgh, 1989), pp. 30 – 57
Rowse, A. L. and Dougan, Robert O. (eds.),
The Discoverie of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh, 1596 and The Discoveries of the World by Antonio Galvao, 1601: Historical Introductions and Bibliographical Notes
(Cleveland, Ohio, 1966)
Ruville, Albert von, trans. H. J. Chaytor,
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
(London, 1907)
Sinclair, Andrew,
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Age of Discovery: The Extraordinary Life and Achievements of a Renaissance Explorer, Sailor and Scholar
(Harmondsworth, 1984)
Williams, Glyn,
‘The Prize of all the Oceans’: The Triumph and Tragedy of Anson’s Voyage round the World
(London, 1999)
Williamson, James A.,
The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery under Henry VII
(Cambridge, 1962)
CHAPTER 2
Anderson, Fred,
Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 – 1766
(London, 2000)
Anstey, Roger,
The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760 – 1810
(London, 1975)
Bailyn, Bernard,
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967)
——,
The Peopling of British North America
(New York, 1986)
Barbour, Philip L.,
The Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter 1606 – 1609, vol. I: Documents Relating to the Foundation of Jamestown and the History of the Jamestown Colony up to the Departure of Captain John Smith, Last President of the Council in Virginia under the First Charter, Early in October 1609
(London/New York, 1969)
Bardon, Jonathan,
A History of Ulster
(Belfast, 1992)
Bauman, Richard,
For the Reputation of Truth: Politics, Religion, and Conflict among the Pennsylvania Quakers 1750 – 1800
(Baltimore/London, 1971)
Belich, James,
Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century
(London, 1997)
——,
Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000
(London, 2001)
Berlin, Ira,
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998)
Blackburn, Robin,
The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492 – 1800
(New York, 1997)
Boogart, E. Van Den and Emmer, P. C., ‘Colonialism and Migration: An Overview’, in P. C. Emmer (ed.),
Colonialism and Migration: Indentured Labour before and after Slavery
(Dordrecht, 1986)
Brogan, Hugh,
The Pelican History of the United States of America
(Harmondsworth, 1986)
Calder, Angus,
Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s
(London, 1981)
Calhoon, Robert M., Barnes, Timothy M., and Rawlyk, George A. (eds.),
Loyalists and Community in North America
(Westport, Connecticut/London, 1994)
Campbell, Mavis C.,
The Maroons of Jamaica 1655 – 1796
(Massachusetts, 1988)
Cecil, Richard (ed.), Marylynn Rouse,
The Life of John Newton
(Fearn, 2000)
Chiswick, Barry and Hatton, Timothy, ‘International Migration and the Integration of Labour Markets’, in Michael Bordo, Alan Taylor and Jeffrey Williamson (eds.),
Globalization in Historical Perspective
(Chicago, forthcoming)
Christie, I. R. and Larabee, B. W.,
Empire and Independence, 1760 – 1776
(Oxford, 1976)
Clark, J. C. D.,
The Language of Liberty, 1660 – 1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World
(Cambridge, 1993)
Curtin, Philip D.,
Death by Migration: Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century
(Cambridge, 1989)