Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. He is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies Online in Atlantic History and the author of Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020) and The Atlantic in World History, 1492-1830 (2020).

• 1. Britain in 1603; 2. Britain Enters the Wider World; 3. British Troubles, 1638-1660; 4. Making Britain, 1660-1707; 5. Ireland; 6. Imperial Britain, 1688-1763; 7. War and Society, 1688-1756; 8. Britain at the Accession of George III, 1760; 9. Global Victory and Imperial Defeat, 1756-1788; 10. The Industrial Revolution; 11. Gender Relations; 12. A New Empire?

'This book fills a very obvious whole in the historiography of early modern Britain, by adopting a three-kingdom viewpoint and at the same time highlighting the wider, Atlantic and global perspective of the country’s rise to international power. All students of the formation of empire will welcome Trevor Burnard's book.’Esther Mijers, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. He is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies Online in Atlantic History and the author of Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020) and The Atlantic in World History, 1492-1830 (2020).

• 1. Britain in 1603; 2. Britain Enters the Wider World; 3. British Troubles, 1638-1660; 4. Making Britain, 1660-1707; 5. Ireland; 6. Imperial Britain, 1688-1763; 7. War and Society, 1688-1756; 8. Britain at the Accession of George III, 1760; 9. Global Victory and Imperial Defeat, 1756-1788; 10. The Industrial Revolution; 11. Gender Relations; 12. A New Empire?

'This book fills a very obvious whole in the historiography of early modern Britain, by adopting a three-kingdom viewpoint and at the same time highlighting the wider, Atlantic and global perspective of the country’s rise to international power. All students of the formation of empire will welcome Trevor Burnard's book.’Esther Mijers, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. He is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies Online in Atlantic History and the author of Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020) and The Atlantic in World History, 1492-1830 (2020).

• 1. Britain in 1603; 2. Britain Enters the Wider World; 3. British Troubles, 1638-1660; 4. Making Britain, 1660-1707; 5. Ireland; 6. Imperial Britain, 1688-1763; 7. War and Society, 1688-1756; 8. Britain at the Accession of George III, 1760; 9. Global Victory and Imperial Defeat, 1756-1788; 10. The Industrial Revolution; 11. Gender Relations; 12. A New Empire?

'This book fills a very obvious whole in the historiography of early modern Britain, by adopting a three-kingdom viewpoint and at the same time highlighting the wider, Atlantic and global perspective of the country’s rise to international power. All students of the formation of empire will welcome Trevor Burnard's book.’Esther Mijers, The University of Edinburgh, UK