Making the British empire, 1660–1800

Jason Peacey is Professor of Early Modern British History at University College London

'This interesting volume is an important contribution to the history of the first British Empire and one that richly deserves attention... There will be a lot of interest in this volume for specialists considering the roles of trade and other factors in early British imperialism.'Journal of British Studies

• 1 Introduction – Jason Peacey2 The pivot of empire: party politics, Spanish America and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) – Steve Pincus3 Party politics and empire in the early eighteenth century – J. H. Elliott 4 From anti-popery and anti-puritanism to orientalism – William J. Bulman5 Protestantism and the politics of overseas expansion in later Stuart England – Gabriel Glickman6 Reconciling empire: English political economy and the Spanish imperial model, 1660–90 – Leslie Theibert7 Legal geography and colonial sovereignty: the making of early English ‘Bombay’ – Philip J. Stern8 Compensating imperial loyalty, 1700–1800 – Julian Hoppit9 Sheffield’s vision: the American Revolution and the 1783 partition of North America – Eliga H. Gould10 Legal pluralism and Burke’s law of nations – Jennifer Pitts Index