British Atlantic World in the 18th Century: A Reading List

British Atlantic World in the 18th Century: A Reading List


David Armitage, Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge, 2000) 1-99 (Chapters 1-3).
Christopher Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (Chapel Hill, 2006) 330-389.
Colin Campbell, “Understanding traditional and modern patterns of consumption in eighteenth-century England: a character-action approach,” John Brewer and Roy Porter, eds., Consumption and the World of Goods (Routledge, 1994) 40-57.
Nicholas Canny, "The Origins of Empire: An Introduction," in Nicholas Canny, The Oxford History of The British Empire: Volume 1, The Origins of Empire (Oxford University Press, 1998) 1-33.
Joan Coutu, Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (McGill-Queens University Press, 2006) 147-180, 230-269.
Richard Drayton, “Knowledge and Empire,” In P. J. Marshall, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 1998) 231-252.
Jack P. Greene, “Empire and Liberty,” in Greene, ed., Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600-1900 (Cambridge, 2009) 1-25.
Jack P. Greene, “Negotiated Authorities: The Problem of Governance in the Extended Polities of the Early Modern Atlantic World,” in Jack P. Greene, Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History (Charlottesville, 1994) 1-24.

Richard Haklyut, Voyages and Discoveries: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, edited, abridged, and introduced by Jack Beeching (Penguin, 1972) 230-242, 252-269.
Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867 (University of Chicago Press, 2002) 23-65.
Isaac Kramnick, ed., The Portable Edmund Burke, (Penguin Books, 1999) 259-273, 363-378.
David Lambert and Alan Lester, eds., Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2006) 1-31.
P. J. Marshall, “The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700-1765,” in P. J. Marshall, The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998) 487-507.

Jennifer Lyle Morgan, “’Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder:’ Male Travelers, Female Bodies and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 54. 1 (January, 1997) 167-192.
Philip D. Morgan, “British Encounters with Africans and African-Americans,” in Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan, eds., Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire (University of North Carolina Press 1991) 151-219.
Jacob M. Price, “The Imperial Economy, 1700-1776,” in P. J. Marshall, The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998) 78-104.

Marcus Rediker Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seaman, Pirates, and the Anglo-American World (1700-1750) 1-76.

Ian K. Steele, The English Atlantic, 1675-1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community (Oxford, 1986) 229-250.

Larry Stewart, “Global Pillage: Science, Commerce, and Empire,” in Roy Porter, ed., The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 4: Eighteenth Century Science (Cambridge, 2003).
Rowan Strong, Anglicanism and the British Empire, 1700-1850 (Oxford University Press, 2007) 1-39.