Continuing Oxford's five-volume comprehensive history of the British Empire, Volume II examines the history of British expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. 13 maps. Examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. List of Maps xv List of Figures xvi List of Tables xvii Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources xviii List of Contributors xix Introduction 1(27) P. J. Marshall British Diaspora: Emigration from Britain, 1680--1815 28(25) James Horn Inseparable Connections: Trade, Economy, Fiscal State, and the Expansion of Empire, 1688--1815 53(25) Patrick K. O'Brien The Imperial Economy, 1700--1776 78(27) Jacob M. Price The Anointed, the Appointed, and the Elected: Governance of the British Empire, 1689--1784 105(23) Ian K. Steele Religious Faith and Commercial Empire 128(23) Boyd Stanley Schlenther Colonial Wars and Imperial Instability, 1688--1793 151(18) Bruce P. Lenman Sea-Power and Empire, 1688--1793 169(15) N. A. M. Rodger World-Wide War and British Expansion, 1793--1815 184(24) Michael Duffy Empire and Identity from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution 208(23) Jack P. Greene Knowledge and Empire 231(22) Richard Drayton 'This famous island set in a Virginian sea': Ireland in the British Empire, 1690--1801 253(23) Thomas Bartlett Growth and Mastery: British North America, 1690--1748 276(24) Richard R. Johnson The American Colonies in War and Revolution, 1748--1783 300(25) John Shy Britain and the Revolutionary Crisis, 1763--1791 325(22) Stephen Conway Native Peoples of North America and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire 347(25) Daniel K. Richter British North America, 1760--1815 372(22) Peter Marshall The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society, 1689--1748 394(21) Richard B. Sheridan The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition, 1748--1815 415(25) J. R. Ward The British Empire and the Atlantic Salve Trade, 1660--1807 440(25) David Richardson The Black Experience in the British Empire, 1680--1810 465(22) Philip D. Morgan The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700--1765 487(21) P. J. Marshall Indian Society and the Establishment of British Supermacy, 1765--1818 508(22) Rajat Kanta Ray British India, 1765--1813; The Metropolitan Context 530(22) H. V. Bowen The Pacific: Exploration and Exploitation 552(24) Glyndwr Williams Britain Without America--A Second Empire? 576(20) P. J. Marshall Chronology 596(15) Index 611