British Empire and Governance

British Empire and Governance

Braddick, Michael J. The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English 

State, 1558-1714 Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996

Brewer, John. Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State (New York, 

1989).

Dirks, Nicholas B. The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial 

Britain Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006

Mancke, Elizabeth and Carole Shammas, The Creation of the British Atlantic World 

(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)

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

Webb, Stephen Saunders. The Governors General: The English Army and the 

Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987)

Marshall, P. J. The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America, 

1750-1783 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

Elliott, John. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 

(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)