The British Empire before the American Revolution

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gipson, Lawrence Henry, 1880-1971.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

Ireland--History--18th century.

Ireland.

Great Britain--Colonies--America.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Bibliography.

Physical Description:

15 v. : maps (part folded) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Caldwell, ID : Caxton Printers, 1936-70.

Contents:

Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis : 1. Great Britain and Ireland. 2. The southern plantations. 3. The northern plantations

Zones of international friction : 4. North America, south of the Great Lakes region, 1748-1754. 5. The Great Lakes frontier, Canada, the West Indies, India, 1748-1754

The Great War for the Empire : 6. The years of defeat, 1754-1757. 7. The victorious years, 1758-1760. 8. The culmination, 1760-1763

The triumphant empire. 9. New responsibilities within the enlarged empire, 1763-1766

10. The triumphant empire : thunder-clouds gather in the west, 1763-1766

11. The rumbling of the coming storm, 1766-1770

12. Britain sails into the storm, 1770-1779

13. The triumphant empire : the empire beyond the storm, 1770-1776; a summary of the series; historiography.

Notes:

Vols. 4-15 have imprint: New York, A. A. Knopf.

Includes bibliographies.

--v. 14. A bibliographical guide to the history of the British Empire, 1748-1776.--v. 15. A guide to manuscripts relating to the history of the British Empire, 1748-1776.