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Table of Contents: “…To the close of the seven years' war.--v. 2. To the close of the seven years' war.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Seventeenth-century foundations -- Walpolean imperial and naval policy -- Disorder, discipline, and the politics of naval reform -- The Seven Years War and the patriot alternative to professionalization -- The authoritarian navy and the crisis of empire -- Conclusion: The American Revolutionary War.…”

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The heiress presumptive -- The war of succession -- Empress, emperor, empire -- Reforms -- Body politics, Distinctions and refinements -- The Seven Years' War -- Dynastic capital -- Mother and son -- The religion of rule -- Strangers within -- Subjects -- The autumn of the matriarch -- Epilogue.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Britain's controversial empire -- Taxing America -- The Seven Years' War and the politics of empire -- The rise and fall of the Stamp Act -- Britain's authoritarian ascendancy -- Sons of Liberty, Sons of Licentiousness -- English blood by English hands -- Conclusion : Republican Empire.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Global convergences : the Pacific and a wider world to the end of the Seven Years' War (1756-63) -- Completing the globe : charting the Pacific, 1763 to the eve of the French Revolution -- Tightening global ties : the Pacific from the French Revolution to the beginning of the Napoleonic empire, 1789-1804.…”

Table of Contents: “…Peace treaties and admiralty courts -- The Anglo-Dutch wars -- The Silesian loan affair and the seven years war -- The American War of Independence -- The Anglo-Argentine commission -- The American Civil War -- The second Anglo-Boer War -- Reparation and international law from the twentieth century -- A peaceful and normative conclusion?…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Early Years and the Evolving Grand Strategic Reality, 1600-1784 -- Part I: Dealing with the French Menace, 1744-61 -- 1 The Indian Dimension in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1744-48 -- 2 Anglo-French Mercenaries in the 'Service' of the Carnatic Princes, 1749-54 -- 3 The Struggle for Supremacy in the Carnatic during the Seven Years War, 1756-61 -- 4 Noises Off: The Seven Years War in Bengal -- Unseating a Nawab, 1756-57 -- Part II: Towards an All-India Grand Strategy, 1762-84 -- 5 Bengal, 1757-67: Crossing the Threshold and Becoming a 'Country' Power -- 6 Thwarted Imperialism: Madras, 1761-78 -- 7 Bengal, 1767-84: The Borders of Power and the Power of Borders -- 8 Bombay Enters the Imperial Game, 1774-82 -- 9 Madras versus Haidar Ali -Round 2, 1778-84.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Before Columbus -- Europeans reach North America -- Cultures meet on the Chesapeake -- Cultures meet in the Northeast -- Coastal societies : resistance, accommodation, and defeat -- Europe, Africa, and the New World -- The African ordeal under slavery -- The transformation of European society -- Wars for empire and Indian strategies for survival -- The Seven Years War and its aftermath -- The tri-colored American Revolution -- The mixing of peoples.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: ways of dying, ways of living -- Old worlds of death -- First encounters -- Burial and disinterment in the Chesapeake -- Holy bones and beautiful deaths in New France -- Grave missions: Christianizing death in New England -- Across the waters: African American deathways -- Crossing boundaries, keeping faith: Jewish deathways -- Burial and condolence in the Seven Years' War -- Conclusion: ways of living, ways of dying.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Chandler -- The army of the Georges and the war of the Austrian succession 1713-47 / Peter Young -- The Seven Years' War : the conquest of Canada 1754-63 / G. …”

Table of Contents: “…The Wars for Empire, 1689-1748 -- The Seven Years' War and the Economic Aftermath, 1754-1770 -- The American Colonial Situation at the War's Onset, 1770-1775 -- Canada, India, and the West Indies at the War's Onset, 1770-1775 -- War in the Colonies, 1775-1778 -- Global War, 1778-1780 -- British Successes, British Failures,1781-1782 -- The War's Conclusion, Late 1781-1783 -- Aftermath of the American Revolution.…”

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Illustrations -- Charting Cook -- A Yorkshire Apprenticeship -- The Seven Years War -- Charting Newfoundland -- The Challenge of the Pacific -- First Contacts with Tahiti -- The Isle of Cythera -- Peril in Australasia -- Homeward Bound -- Antarctica -- Tongans and Maoris -- Mastering the Pacific -- Lost Horizon: The Great -- Southern Continent -- The Last Voyage -- Tahiti: The Final Phase -- Quest for Illusion: -- The Northwest Passage -- Hawaiian Nightmare -- Tragedy on Kealakekua Beach -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes…”
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Table of Contents: “…The development of creole society on the colonial frontier -- Race and class in creole society: Saint-Domingue in the 1760s -- Freedom, slavery, and the French colonial state -- Reform and revolt after the seven years' war -- Citizenship and racism in the new public sphere -- The rising economic power of free people of color in the 1780s -- Proving free colored virtue -- Free people of color in the Southern peninsula and the origins of the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1791 -- Revolution and republicanism in Aquin Parish.…”

Table of Contents: “…Wars for empire and Indian strategies for survival -- 10. The seven years' war and its aftermath -- 11. The tricolored American revolution -- 12. …”

Table of Contents: “…The study of British foreign policy in the age of the American revolution -- The making of British foreign policy -- The legacies of the Seven Years War -- The failure of the old system, 1763-1765 -- The decline of British diplomacy, 1765-1768 -- The beginnings of recovery, 1768-1771 -- The ascendancy of the eastern powers, 1771-1773 -- Splendid isolation, 1773-1775 -- Peace with the Bourbons, 1775-1777 -- War with the Bourbons, 1777-1779 -- War in Europe, 1778-1780 -- The coming of peace, 1781-1783…”

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 1 A Comparative History of Jamaica and Saint-Domingue -- CHAPTER 2 The Plantation World -- CHAPTER 3 Urban Life -- CHAPTER 4 The Seven Years' War in the West Indies -- CHAPTER 5 Dangerous Internal Enemies -- CHAPTER 6 Racial Reconfigurations Before the American Revolution -- CHAPTER 7 The Golden Age of the Plantocracy -- CHAPTER 8 The American Revolution in the Greater Antilles -- CHAPTER 9 Recovery and Consolidation in the 1780s -- CHAPTER 10 The Ancien Régime in the Greater Antilles.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Lawrence Valley -- Iroquois communities in the eighteenth-century Mohawk Valley: Schoharie, Tiononderoge, and Canajoharie -- Dispossessing the Indians: proprietors, squatters, and natives in the Susquehanna Valley -- "The storm which had been so long gathering": Pennsylvanians and Indians at war -- "Our neighbourhood with the settlers": Iroquois and German communities in the Seven Years' War -- Imperial crisis in the Ohio Valley: Indian, colonial American, and British military communities -- Epilogue: the tree of peace uprooted.…”
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