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Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775

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  • © 1996

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  1. H. V. Bowen

    1. University of Leicester, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Contexts and Contours

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Historians and the Eighteenth-Century Empire

      • H. V. Bowen
      Pages 3-21

    3. The Dynamics of Expansion

      • H. V. Bowen
      Pages 22-44

  3. Metropolitan Elites and the Overseas Empire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Gentlemen and Entrepreneurs: Landowners, Merchants and Bankers

      • H. V. Bowen
      Pages 47-78

    3. Investment in Empire

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      Pages 79-100

  4. Overseas Elites in the British Empire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Imperial Ties and the Anglicization of the Overseas Empire

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      Pages 103-124

    3. Merchants, Planters and the Gentlemanly Ideal

      • H. V. Bowen
      Pages 125-146

  5. A New Imperial Order, 1750–75

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. The End of the English Empire

      • H. V. Bowen
      Pages 149-170

    3. Enterprise and Expansion: Drawing a Line

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      Pages 171-193

    4. Afterword

      • H. V. Bowen
      Pages 194-196

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 197-257
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This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state', and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.

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  • University of Leicester, UK

    H. V. Bowen

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