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Authors: Simon Schama
Bayly, C.A.
et al
. (eds.),
The Raj: India and the British, 1600â1947
(Nat. Portrait Gallery 1990)
Bayly, Susan,
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
(CUP 1999)
Beckles, Hilary,
A History of Barbados
(CUP 1990)
Blackburn, Robin,
The Making of New World Slavery. From the Baroque to the Modern
1492â1800 (Verso, 1997)
Butler, Jon,
Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776
(Harvard UP 2000)
Canny, N. (ed.),
The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. 1
(OUP 1998)
Chaudhuri, S. (ed.),
Calcutta: The Living City, Vol. 1: The Past
(OUP 1990)
Cohn, Bernard S.,
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge. The British in India
(Princeton 1996)
Conway, Stephen,
The British Isles and the War of American Independence
(OUP 2000)
Cook, Don,
The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760â1785
(Atlantic Monthly Press 1995)
Dickinson, H.T. (ed.),
Britain and the American Revolution
(Longman 1998)
Draper, T.,
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution
(Abacus 1997)
Dunn, Richard S.,
Sugar and Slaves
.
The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies 1625â1713
(Norton 1973)
Games, Alison,
Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
(Harvard UP 1999)
George, Dorothy M.,
English Political Caricature to 1792
(Clarendon Press 1959)
Greene, Jack P.,
The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800
(University of North Carolina Press 1993)
Handler, J. S., and Lange, E W.,
Plantation Slavery in Barbados
(Harvard UP 1978)
Harvey, Robert,
Clive: The Life and Death of a British Emperor
(Hodder and Stoughton 1998)
Hibbert, C.,
Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes
(Avon 1990)
Inikori, Joseph E., and Engerman, Stanley L. (eds.),
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas and Europe
(Duke UP 1992)
James, L.,
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
(Abacus 1997)
Keay, John,
The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company
(HarperCollins 1991)
Labarée, Benjamin Woods,
The Boston Tea Party
(OUP 1964)
Lawson, Philip,
The East India Company: A History
(Longman 1987)
Maier, Pauline,
American Scripture. Making the Declaration of Independence
(Random House 1997)
Maier, Pauline,
From Resistance to Revolution. Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765â1776
(Routledge & Kegan Paul 1973)
Marshall, P. J.,
Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India, 1740â1828
(CUP 1987)
Marshall, P. J. (ed.),
The Eighteenth Century: The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol 2
(OUP 1998)
Marshall, P. J.,
Trade and Conquest: Studies on the Rise of British Dominance in India
(Variorum 1993)
Mintz, S. W.,
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
(Penguin 1985)
Mintz, S. W.,
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom. Excursions into Eating, Culture and the Past
(Beacon 1996)
Moorhouse, G.,
Calcutta
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1971)
Padfield, P.,
Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind
(Pimlico, 2000)
Pagden, Anthony,
Lords of All the World, Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c. 1500â1800
(Yale UP 1995)
Peters, Marie,
The Elder Pitt
(Longman 1998)
Pocock, Tom,
Battle for Empire: The Very First World War, 1756â63
(Michael O'Mara 1998)
Sandiford, Keith, A.,
The Cultural Politics of Sugar. Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism
(CUP 2000)
Sheridan, R. B.
Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623â1775
(Caribbean UP 1974)
Sinha, N.K.,
The Economic History of Bengal from Plassey to the Permanent Settlement
, 2 vols (Calcutta 1956 and 1962)
Spear, Percival,
The Nabobs: A Study of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth-century India
(OUP 1998)
Walvin, James,
Black Ivory: A History of Slavery
(HarperCollins 1992)
Walvin, James,
Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora
(Cassell 2000)
Walvin, James,
Questioning Slavery
(Routledge 1996)
Weller, Jac,
Wellington in India
(Longman 1972)
Wickwire, F. and M.,
Cornwallis: The Imperial Years
(University of North Carolina Press 1980)
Wild, A.,
The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600
(HarperCollins 2000)
Young, Alfred E,
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party. Memory and the American Revolution
(Beacon 1999)
Zobel, Hiller,
The Boston Massacre
(Norton 1970)
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Abbey Dore 67â9
Abbot, George 35, 84
Abel, John 68
Abercromby, General 358
Aberdeen, sack of 125
Adam, Robert 315â16
Adams, John 369, 374, 378, 384
Adams, Sam 368, 370, 374, 378â9
passim
, 382, 383
Addison, Richard 285, 293
âAgreement of the People' 135, 151, 154â5
agriculture 292â3, 312
Ahmed Shah Durrani 404
Aislabie, John 288
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of 346, 397
Akbar I 395, 421
Alfred the Great 64, 317, 319â20
passim
, 322
Aliens Act 274
Alivardi Khan, nawab of Bengal 397, 400
America, North 31, 72, 83, 191, 262, 313, 325â28, 346, 348â3
passim
, 354â60, 366â86, 387â8, 405, 413
Declaration of Independence 362, 385
Indians 350â1, 356, 357, 360, 366
New England 83, 191, 245, 349, 352, 366â8, 385
see also
Boston
Ohio country 351â3, 355
and taxation 366â75, 380, 381, 387
War of Independence 473â7, 480
Amherst, Gen. Jeffrey 357â60
passim
, 361
Andrewes, Lancelot 35, 55, 67
Andros, Sir Edmund 245
Anne of Denmark 25, 36, 37
Anne, Princess 232â3, 247, 258
Queen 274, 282, 321
Antigua 324, 341, 342
Arcot, siege of 399
Arlington, Lord 233, 234
Arminius, Jacob 56
army 77, 85â7, 123â4, 126â7, 129â32, 133â4, 148â9, 151â2, 154â5, 180, 181, 201â2, 253, 255, 258, 261, 277, 313, 323, 366
Arne, Thomas 317, 319â20, 323
Ashley Cooper, Anthony, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury 185â6, 188, 201, 233, 236â46
passim
, 252
Astley, Sir Jacob 112, 127
Aston, Sir Arthur 167, 169
Aubrey, John 17, 142, 143, 144
Audley End 39, 41
Augusta, Princess 363
Aurangzeb I 395, 396
Bacon, Francis 19, 28, 41, 50, 63, 321
Baillie, Robert 89
Baksar, battle of 404
Balfour, Sir William 112
Banqueting House, Whitehall 33, 138
Barbados 331â4, 341â4
passim
, 346, 363
Barbon, Praisegod 185
Barré, Isaac 370
Barwell, Richard 409
Basing House 16, 128
Bastwick, John 80, 81, 87
Baxter, Richard 334
Becher, Richard 406
Beckford, William 301, 344, 348
Bedford, Earl of 66, 83, 87, 92
Benburb, battle of 124, 126
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo 225, 228
Berwick-on-Tweed, Pacification of 77â8
Bible 35
Bill of Rights 59, 323, 381, 385
bishops 25, 29, 35, 45, 71â2
passim
, 73, 74, 75, 84, 88, 94, 150, 211â12, 255
see also individual entries
Blair, Robert 72, 73
Blake, Admiral 178
Bludworth, Sir Thomas 217, 218
Bohemia 48, 49
Bolton, massacre 16
Bonaparte, Napoleon 420
Booth, Col. George 202
Boscawen, Admiral 356
Boston 368â9, 371â4, 376â9
Boulton, Matthew 314
Boyle, Robert 192, 215
Boyne, battle of the 253, 264
Braddock, General 353â4, 356, 357
Bradshaw, John 137, 138, 159, 176, 208, 210
Brampton Bryan 108â9, 118â19
Brazil 330, 331
Breadalbane, Earl of 266, 267
Breda, Declaration of 210
Bristol 117, 128, 344
Britain 13, 18, 21, 22, 120, 139, 263, 264, 275, 276, 277
Empire 268, 313, 324â422
passim
Broghill, Lord 192, 203
Brooke, Lord 77, 82, 83, 87, 88, 94, 111, 113
Buchanan, George 24, 25, 36
Buckeridge, John 55
Buckingham
see
Villiers
Burke, Edmund 386, 388, 391, 406, 412â13
passim
Burton, Dr Henry 80, 81, 87
Bute, Lord 363, 366
Byng, Admiral 356
Calvinists 22â5, 35, 36, 45, 56, 69â73
passim
, 74, 85, 89, 93, 157, 211
Camden, William 13, 18, 21, 22, 31, 49
Cameron of Lochiel 303â4
Campbell, Archibald, 8th Earl of Argyll 95, 125, 126, 129, 173
Florence 16
John, 4th Earl of Loudoun 355, 356
Canada 346, 349, 350, 354, 355â7, 359â61, 362, 366, 379
Quebec Act 379
Capel, Lord Arthur 152
Carew, Sir Alexander 104, 116
Caribbean 83, 194, 231, 325, 332â3, 340, 343â4, 345, 348â9, 359, 363
Carleton, Sir Dudley 82
Carr, Robert 42, 43â5
Carteret, Sir George 214
Carteret, John 289, 318, 347
Castlemaine, Lady 213
Catesby, Robert 36â7
Catherine of Braganza 221, 232, 393
Catholics 33, 35â7
passim
, 49, 55, 230â1, 232â42
passim
, 247, 248â9, 250â2, 323
Cecil, Robert 27, 36, 37, 40, 41, 63
Chalgrove Field, battle of 119
Chanda Sahib 398, 399
Charles I 15, 18, 41, 49â140, 230, 323
and civil war 109â29
Eikon Basilike
145â7
passim
family 64â5, 136
ideology 64â5, 94â5, 135â6, 139â40
and parliament 53â7, 59â62, 79, 85â8, 99â102, 109â29, 135â8, 146â7, 177
and Scotland 71â3, 85, 86, 95, 127, 129, 134
trial 136â8
Charles II 109â10, 135â6, 143, 144, 148, 165, 172â5, 202, 206â48, 249, 250, 333
and Catholicism 233, 246
court 213, 232, 246
Charles Edward Stuart 173, 302â12
passim
, 315
Charnock, Job 401
Chesterfield, Earl of 289, 296
Chidley, Katherine 153
Child, Josiah 393, 395â7
passim
China 422
chocolate 328
Church of England 34â5, 66â7, 68â9, 145, 211â12, 231, 235, 243, 249, 251, 281
Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough 253, 259, 321
Clarendon
see
Hyde
Clarkson, Laurence 157
Clavering, Lt-Gen. John 409
Clifford, Thomas 233, 234
Clinton, Gen. Sir Henry 387â8
Clinton, Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln 57
Clive, Robert 346, 356, 359, 398â9, 402â8
passim
, 422
Clotworthy, Sir John 90
clubs 237, 280, 293
Cobham
see
Temple
Codrington, Christopher 344
coffee 328; -houses 237, 280, 293
Coke, Sir Edward 26, 27
Coleman, Edward 240
Commonwealth 141â88, 202â5, 242
Compton, Bishop Henry 251
constables 65, 86, 195
Cook, James 323
Cook, John 137
Cope, Lt-Gen. Sir John 304, 305
Coram, Thomas 298â9
Foundling Hospital 299â300
Cornwallis, Earl 385â8
passim
, 391, 413â17
passim
Coryton, William 57, 58, 104
Council of Officers 185, 187
Council of State 187â8, 190, 193
Covenant, National 74â5, 134, 172
Covenanters 23, 75â6, 79, 82, 84â6
passim
, 95, 119, 124â6, 134, 173
Cowper, William 334
Craig, James 315
Cranfield, Lionel 48, 52, 63
Croke, Judge George 81
Cromwell, Henry 192, 202
Oliver 89, 119â24
passim
, 127â8, 130, 134â7, 138, 140, 146, 147, 149â52
passim
, 155, 160â99, 204, 208, 210, 230, 231, 242, 250, 322, 333
as general 164
ideology 122â4
and Ireland 165â72
and kingship 180â1, 188, 197
as Lord Protector 187, 188â98
and parliament 165, 178â86
and Scotland 173â4
Richard 193, 201, 202
Culloden, battle of 309â10, 311
Cumberland, Duke of 307â10
passim
, 353
Curzon, Nathaniel, 1st Baron Scarsdale 315
Dalrymple, John, Master of Stair 267
Danby, Lord 235â7, 240, 242, 245, 247, 249, 253, 257, 258
Darien expedition 269â75, 313
Davies, Sir John 32
Dawes, William 382
Debt, National 277, 287
Declaration of Rights 261
Declarations of Indulgence 212, 231, 234â5, 252, 255, 257, 258
Defoe, Daniel 216, 270, 274, 275, 283, 297, 313, 334
Dekker, Thomas 19â22
passim