Jack Greene is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. He has also taught at Michigan State University, Western Reserve University, the University of Michigan, and the University of California at Irvine. A specialist in the history of Colonial British and Revolutionary American history, he has published and edited many books, chapters in books, articles, and reviews. Perhaps his best-known books are The Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689–1776 (1963), Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607–1789 (1986), Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of the Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (1988), and The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800 (1993).

'Britain's empire was the first since antiquity expressly dedicated to the encouragement of liberty. Exclusionary Empire comprehensively maps the contrasting, varied, and often paradoxical results of Britons' efforts to export and foster their freedoms around the world. This impressive array of authoritative essays provides a new history of the British Empire seen through its liberal institutions and a novel account of liberty's complex imperial itineraries.' David Armitage, Harvard University

• Introduction: empire and liberty Jack P. Greene; 1. The languages of liberty in British North America, 1607–1776 Elizabeth Mancke; 2. Liberty and slavery: the transfer of British liberty to the West Indies, 1627–1865 Jack P. Greene; 3. 'Era of liberty': the politics of civil and political rights in eighteenth-century Ireland James Kelly; 4. Liberty and modernity: the American revolution and the making of Parliament's imperial history Eliga Gould; 5. Federalism, democracy, and liberty in the new American nation Peter S. Onuf; 6. Liberty in Canada, 'multiple subjects, multiple freedoms' Philip Girard; 7. Contested despotism; problems of liberty in British India Robert Travers; 8. '… a bastard of tyranny under the guise of liberty': liberty and representative government in Australia, 1788–1901 Richard Waterhouse; 9. How much did institutions matter?: cloning Britain in New Zealand James Belich; 10. The expansion of British liberty overseas: the South African case Christopher Saunders.

Jack Greene is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. He has also taught at Michigan State University, Western Reserve University, the University of Michigan, and the University of California at Irvine. A specialist in the history of Colonial British and Revolutionary American history, he has published and edited many books, chapters in books, articles, and reviews. Perhaps his best-known books are The Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689–1776 (1963), Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607–1789 (1986), Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of the Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (1988), and The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800 (1993).

'Britain's empire was the first since antiquity expressly dedicated to the encouragement of liberty. Exclusionary Empire comprehensively maps the contrasting, varied, and often paradoxical results of Britons' efforts to export and foster their freedoms around the world. This impressive array of authoritative essays provides a new history of the British Empire seen through its liberal institutions and a novel account of liberty's complex imperial itineraries.' David Armitage, Harvard University

• Introduction: empire and liberty Jack P. Greene; 1. The languages of liberty in British North America, 1607–1776 Elizabeth Mancke; 2. Liberty and slavery: the transfer of British liberty to the West Indies, 1627–1865 Jack P. Greene; 3. 'Era of liberty': the politics of civil and political rights in eighteenth-century Ireland James Kelly; 4. Liberty and modernity: the American revolution and the making of Parliament's imperial history Eliga Gould; 5. Federalism, democracy, and liberty in the new American nation Peter S. Onuf; 6. Liberty in Canada, 'multiple subjects, multiple freedoms' Philip Girard; 7. Contested despotism; problems of liberty in British India Robert Travers; 8. '… a bastard of tyranny under the guise of liberty': liberty and representative government in Australia, 1788–1901 Richard Waterhouse; 9. How much did institutions matter?: cloning Britain in New Zealand James Belich; 10. The expansion of British liberty overseas: the South African case Christopher Saunders.