The British Empire before the American Revolution.
Publisher: The Caxton Printers
Published: 1936
Place of publication: Caldwell, Id
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Ireland -- History -- 18th century.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Bibliography.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Vols. 4-15 have imprint: New York, A. A. Knopf.
--v. 14. A bibliographical guide to the history of the British Empire, 1748-1776.--v. 15. A guide to manuscripts relating to the history of the British Empire, 1748-1776.
Table of contents: title: Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: 1. Great Britain and Ireland. 2. The southern plantations. 3. The northern plantations.; title: Zones of international friction: 4. North America, south of the Great Lakes region, 1748-1754. 5. The Great Lakes frontier, Canada, the West Indies, India, 1748-1754.; title: The Great War for the Empire: 6. The years of defeat, 1754-1757. 7. The victorious years, 1758-1760. 8. The culmination, 1760-1763.; title: The triumphant empire. 9. New responsibilities within the enlarged empire, 1763-1766.; title: 10. The triumphant empire: thunder-clouds gather in the west, 1763-1766.; title: 11. The rumbling of the coming storm, 1766-1770.; title: 12. Britain sails into the storm, 1770-1779; title: 13. The triumphant empire: the empire beyond the storm, 1770-1776; a summary of the series; historiography.