Imperial Island: A History of Britain and Its Empire, 1660-1837

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John Wiley & Sons, 2009/03/30 - 448 ページ
Imperial Island: A History of Britain and its Empire, 1660-1837 is a comprehensive account of Great Britain's imperial path from the Stuart Restoration of 1660 to its emergence as a dominant global superpower.
  • Suitable for students with no prior knowledge of British history
  • Organized to help students and instructors: comprises 21 thematic chapters set within a clear, chronological framework
  • Includes over 30 illustrations and maps to help orient the reader
  • Addresses the new generation of American and British students that are interested in global, environmental, and cultural history
 

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Nations and Kingdoms
3
Counties of Great Britain and Ireland
5
Landscapes in Motion
17
Regions and towns of Great Britain and Ireland with battles of the Jacobite Wars
26
Knowing Ones Place
32
A Merry New Song engraved by John Savage from The Cryes of London Drawne after the Life by Marcellus Laroon
44
Party Strife and Revolution 16601689
49
Interior of a Coffeehouse circa 1705
59
Art Science and Politics
132
A Perspective View of the Cathedral Church of St Pauls in London engraved by J Maurer 1747
139
Interior of the Camera Stellata engraved by Francis Place 1676
142
George Bickham The Stature of a Great Man or the English Colossus 1740
153
William Hogarth Chairing the Member Plate 4 of Four Prints of an Election 1758
164
William Hogarth The Breakfast Scene Plate 2 of Marriage à la Mode 1745
182
William Hogarth Credulity Superstition and Fanaticism Second State 1762
188
Auguste Le Grand after William Woollett engraving of The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West 1776
200

Preserving the Constitution
61
Richard Gaywood The Most Magnificent Riding of Charles the IId to the Parliament 1661
64
Englands Memorial 1689
74
A Disjointed Empire
78
The Caribbean in the late seventeenth century
84
North America in the late seventeenth century
87
The Legacy of Revolution 16891722
97
The Embleme of Englands Distraction Williamite Version 1690
108
The War of the Spanish Succession in Europe 170214
112
The Crisis of the Hanoverian Succession 17101722
117
Dr Burgisses Theater 1710
122
Anonymous engraving of Bishop Atterbury 1723
130
North America and the West Indies 176383
213
William Hogarth John Wilkes Esq 1763
219
The able Doctor or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught 1774
226
Mining manufacturing and canals in late eighteenthcentury Britain
255
Europe at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars
280
The growth of the British empire in India 17651805
289
British North America 17601815
293
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340
The British empire in 1815
360
viii
421
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Paul Kléber Monod holds the Barton Hepburn Chair in History at Middlebury College. He is the author of Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 (1989); The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1588-1714 (1999); and The Murder of Mr. Grebell: Madness and Civility in an English Town (2003).

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