ABSTRACT
From Europe to India and America, Britain's Colonial Wars relates empire to the fortunes of war. In less than a century, between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the settlement following the War of the American Revolution, the modern British state was born. This penetrating new analysis questions the centrality of the colonial enterprise to Westminster policy-makers obsessed with European issues, and explains how the impact of their strategies necessarily shaped the destiny of a multi-national and incoherent empire beyond the shores of Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|151 pages
The English Nation and the Rise of Imperial Britain to 1760
chapter Chapter Two|36 pages
The House of Hanover, internal stresses and external delusions 1713–1748
chapter Chapter Three|31 pages
Under whose flag?: The erratic emergence of the East India Company as a military power 1688–1757
chapter Chapter Four|48 pages
From Armageddon to millennium: English America and the destruction of New France 1748–1760
part Two|104 pages
The Struggle for Control of Imperial Futures and the Final Fissuring of the Englishry 1760–1783