6 Warfare, Luxury, and the Domestic Critique of English Overseas Expansion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Map of English America in 1708 1
4. Introduction: “This New Nature Come Among Us” 5
5. 1 The Restoration and the Geography of English Overseas Expansion 25
6. 2 The Moral Image of Empire in Restoration England 56
7. 3 Conflict, Commerce, and Political Economies of Empire 85
8. Part two. The image and the governance of the english colonists, 1660–1688
9. 4 “People of Another World”: Colonial Subjects, Colonial Liberties, and English Domestic Opinion 119
10. 5 Protestantism, Pluralism, and the Politics of Allegiance in the Restoration Empire 151
11. Part three. Colonization and the discontents of english domestic politics, 1667–1688
12. 6 Warfare, Luxury, and the Domestic Critique of English Overseas Expansion 187
13. 7 “Popery,” Europe, and the Crisis of English Overseas Expansion, 1675–1688 215
14. Part four. Britain, europe, and the post-revolutionary empire, 1689–c. 1700
15. 8 Revolution and the Redefinition of Empire 247
16. 9 The Colonies and the Meaning of “Britain” 276
17. Conclusion 298
18. Notes 307
19. Acknowledgments 387
20. Index 389