H.V. Bowen is Professor of Modern History at Swansea University.

Introduction
1. Writing Wales into the empire: rhetoric, fragments - and beyond? - Neil Evans
2. Wales, Munster and the English South West: contrasting articulations with the Atlantic world -Chris Evans
3. Celtic rivalries: Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the British empire, 1707-1801 - Martyn J. Powell
4. Welsh evangelicals, the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world and the creation of a 'Christian Republick' - David Ceri Jones
5. From periphery to periphery: the Pennants' Jamaican plantations and industrialisation in North Wales, 1771-1812 - Trevor Burnard
6. A 'reticent' people? The Welsh in Asia, c.1700-1815 - Andrew Mackillop
7. Asiatic interactions: India, the East India Company, and the Welsh economy, c.1750-1830 - H. V. Bowen
Afterword
Index