Global Encounters and the Archives: Britain’s Empire in the Age of Horace Walpole

Additional Resources

  • Christopher A. Bayly, “The British and Indigenous Peoples, 1760–1860: Power, Perception and Identity,” in Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600–1850, ed. Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern (London: ucl Press, 1999).
  • Laird Bergad, The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States, New Approaches to the Americas (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
  • Maria Alessandra Bollettino, “‘Of Equa or of More Service’: Black Soldiers and the British Empire in the Mid- Eighteenth-Century Caribbean,” Slavery & Abolition 37 (Nov. 10, 2016): 1–24.
  • Eliga Gould, Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012).
  • Katherine Hart, “James Gillray, Charles James Fox, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Caricature and Displacement in the Debate over Reform,” in Angela Rosenthal and David Bindman, eds., No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2015), 76–103.
  • Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Enlightenment’s Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013).
  • Herbert S. Klein et al., “Transoceanic Mortality: The Slave Trade in Comparative Perspective,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, 58, no. 1 (Jan. 1, 2001): 93–118.
  • Kay Dian Kriz, Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
  • W.S. Lewis, Collector’s Progress, 1st ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951).
  • Peter C. Mancall and James H. Merrell, American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500–1850 (New York: Routledge, 2000).
  • Joanna Marschner, David Bindman, and Lisa L. Ford, eds., Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
  • P.J. Marshall, Bengal: The British Bridgehead (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). 
  • P.J. Marshall, The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c. 1750– 1783 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 
  • Rosalind Mitchison, “The Government and the Highlands,” in Scotland in the Age of Improvement: Essays in Scottish History in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Nicholas Phillipson and Rosalind Mitchison (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970).
  • William A. Pettigrew, Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672–1752 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013).
  • Steven Pincus, “Patriot Fever: Imperial Political Economy and the Causes of the War of Jenkins Ear” (forthcoming).
  • Daniel K. Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).
  • Brendan Simms, Three victories and a Defeat (New York: Basick Books, 2009).
  • Abigail  Leslie Swingen, Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).
  • Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics, 1650–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
  • Kathleen Wilson, “The Performance of Freedom: Maroons and the Colonial Order in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica and the Atlantic Sound,” The William and Mary Quarterly 66, no. 1 (2009): 45–86.
  • Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/ Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument,” CR: The New Centennial Review 3, no. 3 (2003): 257–337.