ADVANCE COPY. Vol. II: The Eighteenth Century. The history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. 25 essays by distinguished historians, introduction, chronology and index. Chapters on factors that led to imperial expansion, economy, governance, religion, commerce, colonial wars, sea-power, world-wide war, Ireland, American war, Native peoples of North America, Caribbean plantation society, the British West Indies in the age of abolition, the British Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade, the Black experience in the British Empire, the British in Asia, Indian society and the establishment of British control, British India, Britain in the Pacific, Britain without North America. Traditional OUP black cloth with gilt title, beautifully illustrated jacket. Published at $45, current list price $165. OUP. 1998. Hb, Dj. LIKE NEW. USED. $16.00