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