Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction: The World the American Revolution Made 1
6. 1. The Revolution Comes to Britain 11
7. 2. Treason, Terror, and Reaction 38
8. 3. Revolution, Reaction, and Sectarianism in Ireland 83
9. 4. Horatio Nelson and the Imperial Struggle in Spanish America 125
10. 5. Revolt and Revolution in the Spanish Empire 152
11. 6. European Weakness and the Russian Conquest of the Crimea 179
12. 7. Conflict and Captivity in India 235
13. 8. The Birth of British India 274
14. 9. Convict Empire 314
15. 10. Exiles of Revolution 356
16. 11. Africa, Abolition, and Empire 381
17. 12. Opium and Empire 428
18. 13. The Dawn of the Century of Humiliation 454
19. Notes 481
20. Select Bibliography 499
21. Index 507