Continuing Oxford's five-volume comprehensive history of the British Empire, Volume II examines the history of British expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. 13 maps.

P. J. Marshall is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History at the University of London.

• List of Contributors; List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations


• 1: P. J. Marshall: Introduction


• 2: James Horn: British Diaspora: Emigration from Britain 1680-1815


• 3: Patrick K. O'Brien: Inseparable Connections: Trade, Economy, Fiscal State, and the Expansion of Empire 1688-1815


• 4: Jacob M. Price: The Imperial Economy 1700-1776


• 5: Ian K. Steele: The Anointed, the Appointed, and the Elected: Governance of the British Empire 1689-1784


• 6: Boyd Stanley Schlenther: Religious Faith and Commercial Empire


• 7: Bruce P. Lenman: Colonial Wars and Imperial Instability 1688-1793


• 8: N. A. M. Rodger: Sea-Power and Empire 1688-1793


• 9: Michael Duffy: World-Wide War and British Expansion 1793-1815


• 10: Jack P. Greene: Empire and Identity from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution


• 11: Richard Drayton: Knowledge and Empire


• 12: Thomas Bartlett: `This Famous Island Set in a Virginian Sea': Ireland in the British Empire 1690-1801


• 13: Richard R. Johnson: Growth and Mastery: British North America 1690-1748


• 14: John Shy: The American Colonies in War and Revolution 1748-1783


• 15: Stephen Conway: Britain and the Reovlutionary Crisis 1763-1791


• 16: Daniel K. Richter: Native Peoples of North America and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire


• 17: Peter Marshall: British North America


• 18: Richard B. Sheridan: The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society 1689-1748


• 19: J. R. Ward: The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition 1748-1815


• 20: David Richardson: The British Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade 1660-1807


• 21: Philip D. Morgan: The Black Experience in the British Empire 1680-1810


• 22: P. J. Marshall: The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion 1700-1765


• 23: Rajat Kanta Ray: Indian Society and the Establishment of British Supremacy 1765-1818


• 24: J. V. Bowen: British India 1765-1813: The Metropolitan Context


• 25: Glyndwr Williams: The Pacific: Exploration and Exploitation


• 26: P. J. Marshall: Britain without America; A Second Empire?


• Chronology; Index