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1. The Origins of Empire: An Introduction; 2. The Struggle forLegitimacy and the Image of Empire in the Atlantic to c.1700; 3. War,Politics, and Colonization 1558-1625; 4. Guns and Sails in the First Phase ofEnglish Colonization 1500-1650; 5. 'Civilizing of those Rude Partes':Colonization within Britain and Ireland 1580s-1640s; 6. England's New Wordand the Old 1480s-1630s; 7. Tobacco Colonies: The Shaping of English Societyin the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake; 8. New England in the SeventeenthCentury; 9. The Hub of Empire: The Caribbean and Britain in the SeventeenthCentury; 10. The English in Western Africa to 1700; 11. The English in Asiato 1700; 12. Literature and Empire; 13. The English Government, War, Trade,and Settlement 1625-1688; 14. New Opportunities for British Settlement:Ireland 1650-1700; 15. Native Americans and Europeans in English America1500-1700; 16. The Middle Colonies: New Opportunities for Settlement1660-1700; 17. 'Shaftesbury's Darling': British Settlement in the Carolinasat the Close of the Seventeenth Century; 18. Overseas Expansion and Trade inthe Seventeenth Century; 19. The Emerging Emprire: The ContinentalPerspective 1650-1715; 20. The Glorious Revolution and America; 21. Navy,State, Trade, and Empire