British Empire in the 18th Century: A Reading List

British Empire in the 18th Century: A Reading List

James Belich, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth Century Britain (Oxford, 2005).
John Brewer, Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State (New York, 1989).

Linda Colley, Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 (Anchor Books, 2002).
Elizabeth Elbourne, Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions, and the Contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799-1853 (McGill-Queens University Press, 2002).
Richard Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism (Cambridge, 1995).
David Hancock, Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 (Cambridge, 1995)

Holger Hoock, Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 (Profile Books, 2010).
Ken MacMillan, Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640 (Cambridge, 2006).
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York, 1986)

Steven Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (Yale University Press, 2009).
Brendan Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire (Basic Books, 2008).
Jon Wilson, The Domination of Strangers: Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Kathleen Wilson, The Island Race: Englishness, Empire, and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge, 2002).