A free though conquering people : eighteenth-century Britain and its empire / P.J. Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, P. J. (Peter James)

Series:

Collected studies ; CS767.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Colonies--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

History.

Great Britain--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : portrait ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K. ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2003.

Contents:

I 'A Free Though Conquering People': Britain and Asia in the Eighteenth Century (Inaugural Lecture in the Rhodes Chair of Imperial History. King's College, London, 1981) 1

II Empire and Authority in the Later Eighteenth Century (Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History XV. London, 1987) 105

III The Eighteenth-Century Empire (British Politics and Society from Walpole to Pitt 1742-1789, ed. Jeremy Black. Basingstoke, 1990) 177

IV Parliament and Property Rights in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Early Modern Conceptions of Property, ed. John Brewer and Susan Staves. London, 1995) 530

V A Nation Defined by Empire, 1755-1776 (Uniting the Kingdom? The Making of British History, ed. Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer. London, 1995) 208

VI Empire and Opportunity in Britain, 1763-75 (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 5. London, 1995) 111

VII Who Cared about the Thirteen Colonies? Some Evidence from Philanthropy (Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History XXVII. London, 1999) 53

VIII The Case for Coercing America before the Revolution (Anglo-American Attitudes: From Revolution to Partnership, ed. Fred M. Leventhal and Roland Quinault. Aldershot, 2000) 9

IX The Moral Swing to the East: British Humanitarianism, India and the West Indies (East India Company Studies: Papers Presented to Professor Sir Cyril Philips, ed. Kenneth Ballhatchet and John Harrison. Hong Kong, 1986) 69

X The Caribbean and India in the Later Eighteenth Century: Two British Empires or One? (Unpublished paper delivered at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2000) 1

XI Britain and China in the Late Eighteenth Century (Ritual and Diplomacy: The Macartney Mission to China 1792-1794, ed. Robert A. Bickers. London, 1993) 11

XII Lord Macartney, India and China: The Two Faces of the Enlightenment (South Asia XIX. Melbourne, 1996) 121

XIII Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: I, Reshaping the Empire (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 8. London, 1998) 1

XIV Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: II, Britons and Americans (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 9. London, 1999) 1

XV Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: III, Britain and India (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 10. London, 2000) 1

XVI Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: IV, The Turning Outwards of Britain (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 11. London, 2001) 1.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0860789136

OCLC:

51305699