Introduction / P.J. Marshall -- British Diaspora : emigration from Britain, 1680-1815 / James Horn -- Inseparable connections : trade, economy, fiscal state, and the expansion of Empire, 1688-1815 / Patrick K. O'Brien -- The imperial economy, 1700-1776 / Jacob M. Price -- The anointed, the appointed, and the elected : governance of the British Empire, 1689-1784 / Ian K. Steele -- Religious faith and commercial empire / Boyd Stanley Schlenther -- Colonial wars and imperial instability, 1688-1793 / Bruce P. Lenman -- Sea-power and Empire, 1688-1793 / N.A.M. Rodger -- World-wide war and British expansion, 1793-1815 / Michael Duffy -- Empire and identity from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution / Jack P. Greene -- Knowledge and Empire / Richard Drayton -- 'This famous island set in a Virginian sea' : Ireland in the British Empire, 1690-1801 / Thomas Bartlett -- Growth and mastery : British North America, 1690-1748 / Richard R. Johnson -- The American Colonies in war and Revolution, 1748-1783 / John Shy -- Britain and the Revolutionary crisis, 1763-1791 / Stephen Conway -- Native peoples of North America and the eighteenth-century British Empire / Daniel K. Richter --
British North America, 1760-1815 / Peter Marshall -- The formation of Caribbean Plantation Society, 1689-1748 / Richard B. Sheridan -- The British West Indies in the age of abolition, 1748-1815 / J.R. Ward -- The British Empire and the Atlantic slave trade, 1660-1807 / David Richardson -- The black experience in the British Empire, 1680-1810 / Philip D. Morgan -- The British in Asia : trade to dominion, 1700-1765 / P.J. Marshall -- Indian society and the establishment of British supremacy, 1765-1818 / Rajat Kanta Ray -- British India, 1765-1813 : the metropolitan context / H.V. Bowen -- The Pacific : exploration and exploitation / Glyndwr Williams -- Britain without America-- a second Empire? / P.J. Marshall