Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One. Coffee, Association, and Cultural Hybridity in Seventeenth-Century England 24
6. Chapter Two. Improvement and the Discourse of Society in Eighteenth-Century Ireland 54
7. Chapter Three. The Authority of the Defeatedy 90
8. Chapter Four. The Experience of Empire 128
9. Chapter Five. A Habitat for Hopeful Monsters 154
10. Chapter Six. Civil Society and Empire in Revolution 177
11. Conclusion 214
12. Notes 221
13. Index 277