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

Nicholas Canny

Abstract

This book, the first volume of the Oxford History of the British Empire series, 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 ... More

Keywords: British Empire, transoceanic navigation, trade, settlement, colonial activity, sixteenth century, seventeenth century

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 1998 Print ISBN-13: 9780198205623
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205623.001.0001

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Nicholas Canny, editor
National University of Ireland, Galway
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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

List of Maps

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources

1 The Origins of Empire: An Introduction

NICHOLAS CANNY

2 The Struggle for Legitimacy and the Image of Empire in the Atlantic to c.1700

Anthony Pagden

3 War, Politics, and Colonization, 1558–1625

John C. Appleby

4 Guns and Sails in the First Phase of English Colonization, 1500–1650

N. A. M. Rodger

5 Literature and Empire

David Armitage

6 ‘Civilizinge of those Rude Partes’: Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580s-1640s

Jane H. Ohlmeyer

7 England’s New World and the Old, 1480s–1630s

Nicholas Canny

8 Tobacco Colonies: The Shaping of English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

James Horn

9 New England in the Seventeenth Century

Virginia Dejohn Anderson

10 The ‘Hub of Empire’: The Caribbean and Britain in the Seventeenth Century

Hilary McD. Beckles

11 The English in Western Africa to 1700

P. E. H. Hair, and Robin Law

12 The English in Asia to 1700

P. J. Marshall

13 The English Government, War, Trade, and Settlement, 1625–1688

Michael J. Braddick

14 New Opportunities for British Settlement: Ireland, 1650–1700

T. C. Barnard

15 Native Americans and Europeans in English America, 1500–1700

Peter C. Mancall

16 The Middle Colonies: New Opportunities for Settlement 1660–1700

Ned C. Landsman

17 ‘Shaftesbury’s Darling’: British Settlement in the Carolinas at the Close of the Seventeenth Century

Robert M. Weir

18 Overseas Expansion and Trade in the Seventeenth Century

Nuala Zahedieh

19 The Emerging Empire: The Continental Perspective, 1650–1713

Jonathan I. Israel

20 The Glorious Revolution and America

Richard S. Dunn

21 Navy, State, Trade, and Empire

G. E. Aylmer

End Matter

Chronology

Index