British Empire in the 18th Century: A Reading List (Article)

British Empire in the 18th Century: A Reading List (Article)

C.A. Bayly, “The First Age of Global Imperialism,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 26, 2 (1998) 28-47.
Troy O. Bickham, “Eating the Empire: Intersections of Food, Cookery and Imperialism in Eighteenth Century Britain,” Past and Present, 198, 1 (2008) 71-109.
Stephen N. Broadberry, “Lancashire, India, and shifting competitive advantage in cotton textiles, 1700-1850: the neglected role of factor prices,” Economic History Review, 62, 2 (2009) 279-305.
Christopher L. Brown, “Empire Without Slaves: British Concepts of Emancipation in the Age of the American Revolution,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 56, 2 (1999) 273-306.
Nicholas Canny, “The Ideology of English Colonization: From Ireland to America,” The William and Mary Quarterly,” 30, 4 (1973) 575-598.
Stephen Conway, “From Fellow Nationals to Foreigners: British Perceptions of the Americans, circa. 1739-1783,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 59, 1 (2002) 65-100.
Jan de Vries, “The Industrious Revolution and the Industrial Revolution,” The Journal of Economic History, 54, 2 (1994) 249-270.
Alison Games, “Beyond the Atlantic: English Globetrotters and Transatlantic Connections,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 63, 4 (2006) 675-693.
Travis Glasson, “Baptism doth not Bestow Freedom: Missionary Anglicanism, Slavery, and the Yorke-Talbot Opinion, 1701-1730,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 67, 2 (2010) 279-318.

Maya Jasanoff, “Collectors of Empire: Objects, Conquests, and Imperial Self-Fashioning,” Past and Present, 184 (2004) 109-136.
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, “Fear of Hot Climates in the Anglo-American Colonial Experience,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 41, 2 (1984) 213-240.
P.J. Marshall, “Empire and Authority in the Late Eighteenth Century,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 15, 2 (1987) 105-122.
Carl H. Nightingale, “Before Race Mattered: Geographies of the Color Line in Early Colonial Madras and New York,” American Historical Review, 113, 1 (2008) 48-71.
Marie Peters, “Early Hanoverian Consciousness: Empire or Europe,” The English Historical Review, 122, 497 (2007) 632-668.
William Pettigrew, “Free to Enslave: Politics and the Escalation of Britain’s Transatlantic Slave Trade,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 64, 1 (2007) 3-38.

Londa Schiebinger, “Agnotology and Exotic Abortifacients: The Cultural Production of Ignorance in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 149, 3 (2005) 316-343.
Carole Shammas, “Anglo-American Household Government in Comparative Perspective,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 52, 1 (1995) 104-144.

Ian K. Steele, “Communicating a Revolution to the Colonies, 1688-1689,” Journal of British Studies, 24, 3 (1985) 333-357.
Owen Stanwood, “The Protestant Moment: Antipopery, the Revolution of 1688-89, and the Making of an Anglo-American Empire,” Journal of British Studies, 46, 3 (2007) 481-508.
Philip J. Stern, “’A Politie of Civill and Military Power’: Political Thought and the Late Seventeenth-Century Foundations of the East India Company-State,” Journal of British Studies 47, 2 (April 2008) 253-283.

Stephen Saunders Webb, “Army and Empire: English Garrison Government in Britain and America, 1569-1763,” William and Mary Quarterly, 24, 1 (1977) 1-31.