British Empire and the Imperial Governance in the 18th Century

British Empire and the Imperial Governance in the 18th Century

How can we best understand the British Empire and the Imperial Governance in the 18th Century. In order to answer this question, I've found these books below. For those who are interested in British history, especially the history of the British Empire in the 18th century Atlantic world, these books are worth of reading.


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)