Making the British Empire, 1660–1800

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

• 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

'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