'This interesting volume is an important contribution to the history of the first British Empire and one that richly deserves attention... There will be a lot of interest in this volume for specialists considering the roles of trade and other factors in early British imperialism.'
Journal of British Studies

1 Introduction – Jason Peacey
2 The pivot of empire: party politics, Spanish America and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) – Steve Pincus
3 Party politics and empire in the early eighteenth century – J. H. Elliott
4 From anti-popery and anti-puritanism to orientalism – William J. Bulman
5 Protestantism and the politics of overseas expansion in later Stuart England – Gabriel Glickman
6 Reconciling empire: English political economy and the Spanish imperial model, 1660–90 – Leslie Theibert
7 Legal geography and colonial sovereignty: the making of early English ‘Bombay’ – Philip J. Stern
8 Compensating imperial loyalty, 1700–1800 – Julian Hoppit
9 Sheffield’s vision: the American Revolution and the 1783 partition of North America – Eliga H. Gould
10 Legal pluralism and Burke’s law of nations – Jennifer Pitts
Index