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List of Contributors; List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables;Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. British Diaspora: Emigration from Britain1680-1815; 3. Inseparable Connections: Trade, Economy, Fiscal State, and theExpansion of Empire 1688-1815; 4. The Imperial Economy 1700-1776; 5. TheAnointed, the Appointed, and the Elected: Governance of the British Empire1689-1784; 6. Religious Faith and Commercial Empire; 7. Colonial Wars andImperial Instability 1688-1793; 8. Sea-Power and Empire 1688-1793; 9.World-Wide War and British Expansion 1793-1815; 10. Empire and Identity fromthe Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution; 11. Knowledge and Empire;12. 'This Famous Island Set in a Virginian Sea': Ireland in the BritishEmpire 1690-1801; 13. Growth and Mastery: British North America 1690-1748;14. The American Colonies in War and Revolution 1748-1783; 15. Britain andthe Reovlutionary Crisis 1763-1791; 16. Native Peoples of North America andthe Eighteenth-Century British Empire; 17. British North America; 18. TheFormation of Caribbean Plantation Society 1689-1748; 19. The British WestIndies in the Age of Abolition 1748-1815; 20. The British Empire and theAtlantic Slave Trade 1660-1807; 21. The Black Experience in the BritishEmpire 1680-1810; 22. The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion 1700-1765; 23.Indian Society and the Establishment of British Supremacy 1765-1818; 24.British India 1765-1813: The Metropolitan Context; 25. The Pacific:Exploration and Exploitation; 26. Britain without America; A Second Empire?;Chronology; Index