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The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. In this new volume on the last century of empire there are chapters on imperial centres, on the geographical `periphery' of empire, and on all its connecting mechanisms, including institutions and the flow of people, money, goods, and services. The volume also explores the experience of `imperial subjects' in terms of culture, politics, and economics; an experience which culminated in the growth of vibrant, often new, national identities and movements and, ultimately, new nation-states. It concludes with the processes of decolonization which reshaped the political map of the late twentieth-century world.

The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study allows us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginnings, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. Volume IV considers many aspects of the 'imperial experience' in the final years of the British Empire, culminating in the mid-century's rapid processes of decolonization. It seeks to understand the men who managed the empire, their priorities and vision, and the mechanisms of control and connection which held the empire together. There are chapters on imperial centres, on the geographical 'periphery' of empire, and on all its connecting mechanisms, including institutions and the flow of people, money, goods, and services. The volume also explores the experience of 'imperial subjects' - in terms of culture, politics, and economics; an experience which culminated in the growth of vibrant, often new, national identities and movements and, ultimately, new nation-states. It concludes with the processes of decolonization which reshaped the political map of the late twentieth-century world.

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CONTENTS
List of Maps = xv
List of Figures = xvi
List of Tables = xvi
List of Contributors = xvii
Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources = xx
1. The Origins of Empire : An Introduction / Nicholas Canny = 1
2. The Struggle for Legitimacy and the Image of Empire in the Atlantic to c.1700 / Anthony Pagden = 34
3. War, Politics, and Colonization, 1558-1625 / John C. Appleby = 55
4. Guns and Sails in the First Phase of English Colonization, 1500-1650 / N. A. M. Rodger = 79
5. Literature and Empire / David Armitage = 99
6. 'Civilizing of those rude partes' : Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580s-1640s / Jane H. Ohlmeyer = 124
7. England's New World and the Old, 1480s-1630s / Nicholas Canny = 148
8. Tobacco Colonies : The Shaping of English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake / James Horn = 170
9. New England in the Seventeenth Century / Virginia DeJohn Anderson = 193
10. The 'Hub of Empire' : the Caribbean and Britain in the Seventeenth Century / Hilary McD. Beckles = 218
11. The English in Western Africa to 1700 / P. E. H. Hair ; Robin Law = 241
12. The English in Asia to 1700 / P. J. Marshall = 264
13. The English Government, War, Trade, and Settlement, 1625-1688 / Michael J. Braddick = 286
14. New Opportunities for British Settlement : Ireland, 1650-1700 / T. C. Barnard = 309
15. Native Americans and Europeans in English America, 1500-1700 / Peter C. Mancall = 328
16. The Middle Colonies : New Opportunities for Settlement, 1660-1700 / Ned C. Landsman = 351
17. 'Shaftesbury's Darling' : British Settlement in the Carolinas at the Close of the Seventeenth Century / Robert M. Weir = 375
18. Overseas Expansion and Trade in the Seventeenth Century / Nuala Zahedieh = 398
19. The Emerging Empire : The Continental Perspective, 1650-1713 / Jonathan I. Israel = 423
20. The Glorious Revolution and America / Richard S. Dunn = 445
21. Navy, State, Trade, and Empire / G. E. Aylmer = 467
Chronology = 482
Index = 507