Contents or Abstract: '; “...The transformation of Ulster society in the wake of the Glorious Revolution --...”
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Contents or Abstract: '; “...The Restoration and the North American colonies -- Navigation Acts and royal charters -- The Restoration colonies -- The Indian neighbor -- A time of trouble -- The revival of colonization -- The Glorious Revolution -- The revolutionary settlement -- Toward the eighteenth century....”
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Contents or Abstract: '; “...Introduction: Plantation, improvement and revolution -- Plantation to glorious revolution -- landscapes of improvement -- improving Mount Vernon -- Subversive suburbias -- The plantation revolution -- in absentia, Arcadia? ...”

Contents or Abstract: '; “...The prehistory of modern maritime power -- The Spanish Armada, 1588 -- The Downs, 1639 -- The Dutch Golden Age -- Sole Bay, 1672 -- The "Glorious Revolution" and Beachy Head, 1690 -- Barfleur/La Hougue, 1692 -- Málaga, 1704 -- Rule, Britannia -- Finisterre, 1747 -- Quiberon Bay, 1759 -- The American Revolution -- The War of American Independence and Chesapeake Bay, 1781 -- The Saints, 1782, and the founding of the United States of America....”
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Contents or Abstract: '; “...Miller -- The apprenticeship of colonization / Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -- Exports and the growth of the British economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens / P.K. O'Brien and S.L. ...”

Contents or Abstract: '; “...Pt. 1: America in the expansion of Europe -- The European background of American history -- The age of exploration -- The earliest European colonies in America -- International aspects of the age of discovery -- England on the eve of colonization -- Pt. 2: the beginnings of the British Empire in America, 1607-1650 -- The geography of North America -- The aboriginal inhabitants of North America -- The planting of Virginia -- New Plymouth Plantation -- "The Caribbee Isles" -- Massachusetts Bay -- The Puritan diaspora: Roger Williams and the founding of Rhode Island -- The Puritan diaspora: Connecticut, New Haven, New Hampshire, Maine -- Proprietary Maryland -- New Netherland and New Sweden -- Pt. 3: the crystallization of an empire, 1650-1689 -- England's colonial policy -- New colonies founded under the restoration: Carolina -- New Netherland becomes New York -- The founding of Pennsylvania -- The old colonies under the restoration: the West Indies, 1660-1689 -- Virginia and Maryland under the restoration -- The breaking of rebellious New England -- The glorious revolution in America -- The rise of new France -- The British empire and European diplomacy, 1648-1713 -- The first "Americans" -- Pt. 4: the growth of the provinces in the eighteenth century -- New England in the eighteenth century -- New York and east New Jersey -- The Quaker commonwealth: Pennsylvania, Delaware, and west New Jersey -- Proprietary Maryland -- The expansion of Virginia -- North Carolina grows up -- The development of South Carolina -- Georgia: a refuge and a fortress -- The heyday of the British West Indies -- Pt. 5: a flourishing empire -- The British imperial system -- The colonial constitution -- The expansion of the colonial economy -- A changing colonial society: immigration and the "old west" -- The mind of provincial America -- British America in international relations, 1713-1763 -- Pt. 6: the breakup of an empire and the birth of an nation -- The reorganization of the British empire in America, 1763-1770 -- The new west -- The rift in the empire, 1770-1776 -- The War for American independence -- The diplomacy of independence -- The internal revolution: the birth of republicanism -- The internal revolution: the ferment of freedom--social and religious change -- Problems of the confederation, 1781-1787 -- The completion of the revolution: the Constitution of 1787-1791....”