Cities of Empire

by Tristram Hunt

  Young, A. (ed.), Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (Boston, 1846).

  Alexander, J. K., Samuel Adams: America’s Revolutionary Politician (Oxford, 2002).

  Armitage, D., Greater Britain, 1516–1776: Essays in Atlantic History (Aldershot, 2004).

  Armitage, D., The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge, 2000).

  Armitage, D. and Braddick, M. J. (eds.), The British Atlantic World (Basingstoke, 2002).

  Bailyn, B., The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, Mass., 1992).

  Bailyn, B., ‘1776: A Year of Challenge – a World Transformed’, Journal of Law and Economics, 19 (1976).

  Bailyn, B. and Denault, P. L. (eds.), Soundings in Atlantic History (Cambridge, Mass., 2009).

  Baltzell, E. D., Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (London, 1979).

  Baxter, W. T., The House of Hancock (Cambridge, Mass., 1945).

  Beach, S., Samuel Adams: The Fateful Years (Cornwallis, 1965).

  Breen, T. H., ‘“Baubles of Britain”: The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century’, Past and Present, 119 (1988).

  Breen, T. H., ‘An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America’, Journal of British Studies, 25, 4 (1986).

  Bremer, F. J., John Winthrop (Oxford, 2003).

  Bridenbaugh, C., Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776 (Oxford, 1955).

  Bridenbaugh, C., Cities in the Wilderness (Oxford, 1970).

  Bushman, R. L., King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (Chapel Hill, 1992).

  Carp, B. L., Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (London, 2010).

  Carp, B. L., Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (Oxford, 2007).

  Deetz, J., In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life (New York, 1977).

  DeJohn Anderson, V., ‘New England in the Seventeenth Century’, in Nicholas Canny (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 1: The Origins of Empire (Oxford, 1998).

  Gaustad, E., Benjamin Franklin (Oxford, 2006).

  Gould, E. H., ‘Revolution and Counter-Revolution’, in D. Armitage and M. J. Braddick (eds.), The British Atlantic World (Hampshire, 2002).

  Greene, J. P., Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (Chapel Hill, 1988).

  Hutson, J. H., John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution (Lexington, 1980).

  Kay, J. H., Lost Boston (Boston, 1980).

  McConville, B., The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776 (Chapel Hill, 2006).

  McCusker, J. J. and Menard, R. R., The Economy of British America (Chapel Hill, 1985).

  MacInnes, A. I. and Williamson, A. H. (eds.), Shaping the Stuart World (Leiden, 2006).

  Magra, C. P., The Fisherman’s Cause: Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution (Cambridge, 2009).

  Marshall, P. J. (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: The Eighteenth-Century (Oxford, 1998).

  Miller, P., Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2004).

  Morgan, E., The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (Boston, 1958).

  Morison, S. E., The Founding of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass., 1995).

  Nash, G. B., The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, Mass., 1986).

  Parker, M., The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War (London, 2011).

  Reps, J. W., The Making of Urban America (New Jersey, 1965).

  Rowe, A. (ed.), Letters and Diary of John Rowe (New York, 1969).

  Rutman, D., Winthrop’s Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town (Chapel Hill, 1965).

  Simms, B., Three Victories and a Defeat (London, 2007).

  Stanwood, O., The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution (Philadelphia, 2011).

  Stark, J. H., The Loyalists of Massachusetts (Boston, 1910).

  Steele, I. K., The English Atlantic 1675–1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community (Oxford, 1995).

  Thompson, E. P., ‘The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century’, in E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common (London, 1993).

  Tourtellot, A. B., Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius (New York, 1977).

  Unger, H. G., John Hancock (New York, 2000).

  Vaughan, A. T. (ed.), The Puritan Tradition in America (Hanover, NH, 1997).

  Wright, E., Benjamin Franklin: His Life as He Wrote It (Cambridge, Mass., 1990).

  CHAPTER 2: BRIDGETOWN

  Anon., News from Barbadoes (London, 1676).

  Atkins, J., A Voyage to Guinea, Brazil and the West Indies (1735) (London, 1970).

  Bowen, E., A Complete System of Geography (London, 1747).

  Coleridge, H. N., Six Months in the West Indies in 1825, 4th edition (London, 1841).

  Dickson, W., Letters on Slavery (London, 1789).

  Dickson, W., Mitigation of Slavery (1814) (Westport, 1970).

  Eaden, J. (ed.), The Memoirs of Père Labat (1693–1705) (London, 1931).

  Edwards, B., The History Civil and Commerical, of the British West Indies (London, 1819).

  Edwards, B., The History Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies (London, 1798).

  Entick, J., The Present State of the British Empire (London, 1774).

  Equiano, O., The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (London, 1794).

  Frere, H., A Short History of Barbados (London, 1768).

  Froude, J. A., The English in the West Indies (London, 1888).

  The Life and Works of John Adams (Boston, 1853).

  Ligon, R., A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (London, 1673).

  Madden, R. A., A Twelvemonth’s Residence in the West Indies (London, 1835).

  Oldmixon, J., The British Empire in America (London, 1708).

  Orderson, J. W., Creoleana: or, Social and Domestic Scenes and Incidents in Barbados in Days of Yore (London, 1842).

  Pinckard, G., Notes on the West Indies, 2nd edn (London, 1816).

  Poyer, J., The History of Barbados (London, 1808).

  Quennell, P. (ed.), Memoirs of William Hickey (London, 1960).

  Smith, A., An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) (Harmondsworth, 1986).

  Wedd, A. F. (ed.), The Fate of the Fenwicks: Letters [Mainly Written by E. Fenwick] to Mary Hays (1798–1828) (London, 1927).

  The Winthrop Papers, vol. 1: 1498–1628 (Boston, 1925).

  Alleyne, W., Historic Bridgetown (Bridgetown, 1978).

  Armitage, D. and Braddick, M. J. (eds.), The British Atlantic World (Basingstoke, 2002).

  Beckles, H. M., A History of Barbados (Cambridge, 1990).

  Blackburn, R., The Making of New World Slavery (London, 1997).

  Bowden, M. J., ‘Three Centuries of Bridgetown: An Historical Geography’, Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, 49 (2003).

  Canny, N. and Pagden, A. (eds.), Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World (Princeton, 1987).

  Connell, N., ‘Prince William Henry’s Visits to Barbados in 1786 and 1789’, Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, 25, 4 (1958).

  Devine, T. W., To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora, 1750–2010 (London, 2011).

  Drayton, R., ‘The Collaboration of Labour: Slaves, Empires and Globalizations in the Atlantic World, c. 1600–1850’, in A. G. Hopkins (ed.), Globalization in World History (London, 2002).

  Duffy, M., Soldiers, Sugar, and Seapower (Oxford, 1987).

  Earle, P., The World of Defoe (London, 1976).

  Fraser, H., ‘Historic Bridgetown – Development and Architecture’, in W. Marshall and P. Welch (eds.), Beyond the Bridge (Cave Hill, 2005).

  Greene, J. P., ‘Changing Identity in the
British Caribbean: Barbados as a Case Study’, in Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden (eds.), Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World (Princeton, 1987).

  Greene, J. P. (ed.), Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas 1600–1900 (Cambridge, 2010).

  Greene, J. P., ‘Liberty and Slavery’, in J. P. Greene (ed.), Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas 1600–1900 (Cambridge, 2010).

  Harlow, V. T., A History of Barbados (Oxford, 1926).

  Hopkins, A. G. (ed.), Globalization in World History (London, 2002).

  James, C. L. R., The Black Jacobins (London, 2001).

  Marshall, P. J. (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998).

  Marshall, W. and Welch, P. (eds.), Beyond the Bridge (Cave Hill, 2005).

  Marx, K., Capital (London, 1990).

  O’Shaughnessy, A. J., An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Philadelphia, 2000).

  Parker, M., The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War (London, 2011).

  Potter, R. (ed.), Urbanization, Planning and Development in the Caribbean (London, 1989).

  Potter, R. B. and Wilson, M., ‘Barbados’, in R. B. Potter (ed.), Urbanization, Planning and Development in the Caribbean (London, 1989).

  Sheridan, R. B., ‘Caribbean Plantation Society, 1689–1748’, in P. J. Marshall (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1998).

  Sheridan, R., Sugar and Slavery (London, 1974).

  Smith, S. D., ‘Gedney Clarke of Salem and Barbados: Transatlantic Super-Merchant’, The New England Quarterly, 76, 4 (December 2003).

  Smith, S. D., Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648–1834 (Cambridge, 2006).

  Solow, B. L. and Engerman, S. L. (eds.), British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery (Cambridge, 1987).

  Steele, I. K., The English Atlantic 1675–1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community (Oxford, 1986).

  Walvin, J., Atlas of Slavery (Edinburgh, 2006).

  Watson, K., The Civilised Island, Barbados: A Social History, 1750–1816 (Bridgetown, 1979).

  Welch, P., Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados, 1680–1834 (Oxford, 2003).

  Williams, E., Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill, 1944).

  CHAPTER 3: DUBLIN

  Anon., The History of Ned Evans (London, 1797).

  Barnes, G., A Statistical Account of Ireland Formed on Historical Facts (London, 1811).

  Barrington, J., Historic Memoirs of Ireland (London, 1835).

  Campbell, T., A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland (London, 1777).

  Carr, J., The Stranger in Ireland; or, a Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of That Country in the Year 1805 (London, 1806).

  Cooke, E., Pro and Con: Being an Impartial Abstract of the Principal Publications on the Subject of Legislative Union (Dublin, 1800).

  Copeland, T. et al. (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke (Cambridge, 1958–70).

  Cromwell, T., Excursions Through Ireland (London, 1820).

  De Latocnaye, A Frenchman’s Walk through Ireland (1798) (Cambridge, 1984).

  Gamble, J., Sketches of History, Politics and Manners in Dublin and the North of Ireland in 1810 (London, 1826).

  Gilbert, J. T., A History of the City of Dublin (Dublin, 1859).

  Jefferys, N., An Englishman’s Descriptive Account of Dublin (London, 1810).

  Lecky, W. E. H., Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (1892) (London, 1913).

  McGregor, J. J., New Picture of Dublin (Dublin, 1821).

  Malton, J., A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin (1799) (Dublin, 1980).

  Melville, E., Sketches of Society in France and Ireland in the years 1805–6–7 by a Citizen of the United States (Dublin, 1811).

  Owenson, S., Florence Macarthy (1818) (New York, 1979).

  Parliamentary History, 34 (London, 1815).

  Pool, R. and Cash, J., Views of the Most Remarkable Public Buildings, Monuments & Other Edifices in the City of Dublin (Dublin, 1780).

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  Wakefield, E., An Account of Ireland Statistical and Political (London, 1812).

  Warburton, J., Whitelaw, J. and Walsh, R. (eds.), History of the City of Dublin from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time (London, 1818).

  Young, A., A Tour in Ireland (Cambridge, 1983).

  Ardill, J. R., The Closing of the Irish Parliament (Dublin, 1907).

  Bartlett, T., ‘Ireland, Empire, and Union, 1690–1801’, in Kevin Kenny (ed.), Ireland and the British Empire (Oxford, 2004), pp. 60–71.

  Bartlett, T., ‘“This Famous island set in a Virginian Sea”: Ireland in the British Empire, 1690–1801’, in P. J. Marshall (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2001), pp. 253–75.

  Bew, J., Castlereagh (London, 2011).

  Bew, P., Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789–2006 (Oxford, 2007).

  Boyd, G. A., Dublin 1745–1922: Hospitals, Spectacle and Vice (Dublin, 2006).

  Brady, J. and Simms, A. (eds.), Dublin through Space and Time (Dublin, 2001).

  Brown, M., Geoghegan, P. M. and Kelly, J. (eds.), The Irish Act of Union 1800 (Dublin, 2003).

  Burns, K., ‘The History of 29 FitzWilliam Street’, Dublin Historical Record, 57, 1 (2004).

  Butel, P. and Cullen, L. M. (eds.), Cities and Merchants: French and Irish Perspectives on Urban Development, 1500–1900 (Dublin, 1986).

  Clark, P. and Gillespie, R., Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500–1800 (Oxford, 2001).

  Clarke, H., Dublin (London, 1976).

  Connolly, S. J. (ed.), Kingdoms United? Great Britain and Ireland since 1500 (Dublin, 1999).

  Craig, M., Dublin, 1660–1860: A Social and Architectural History (Dublin, 1969).

  Crosbie, B., Irish Imperial Networks: Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India (Cambridge, 2012).

  Darwin, J., Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (London, 2012).

  Dickson, D. (ed.), The Gorgeous Mask: Dublin, 1700–1850 (Dublin, 1987).

  Foster, R. F., Modern Ireland 1600–1972 (London, 1988).

  Fraser, M., ‘Public Building and Colonial Policy in Dublin, 1760–1800’, Architectural History, 28 (1985).

  Hague, W., William Pitt the Younger (London, 2004).

  Hill, C., God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (London, 2000).

  James, F. G., ‘Irish Colonial Trade in the Eighteenth Century’, The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 20, 4 (1963).

  Kearns, K. C., Georgian Dublin: Ireland’s Imperilled Architectural Heritage (London, 1983).

  Kearns, K. C., ‘Preservation and Transformation of Georgian Dublin’, Geographical Review, 72, 3 (1982).

  Kelly, J., ‘The Origins of the Act of Union: An Examination of Unionist Opinion in Britain and Ireland, 1650–1800’, Irish Historical Studies, 25 (1986–7).

  Kenny, K. (ed.), Ireland and the British Empire (Oxford, 2004).

  Keogh, D. and Whelan, K. (eds.), Acts of Union (Dublin, 2001).

  Kincaid, A., Postcolonial Dublin (Minneapolis, 2006).

  Livesey, J., Civil Society and Empire (London, 2009).

  Luckett, R., Handel’s Messiah: A Celebration (London, 1992).

  Lynch, P., ‘A Dublin Street: North Great George’s Street’, Dublin Historical Record, 31, 1 (1977).

  McCullough, N., Dublin: An Urban History (Dublin, 1989).

  McCullough, N., A Vision of the City: Dublin and the Wide Street Commissioners (Dublin, 1991).

  McDowell, R. B., Ireland in
the Age of Imperialism and Revolution (London, 1991).

  McParland, E., ‘Strategy in the Planning of Dublin, 1750–1800’, in P. Butel and L. M. Cullen (eds.), Cities and Merchants: French and Irish Perspectives on Urban Development, 1500–1900 (Dublin, 1986).

  McParland, E., ‘The Wide Streets Commissioners’, Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, 15, 1 (1972).

  Marx, K. and Engels, F., Collected Works, vols. 40 and 43 (New York, 1983).

  Maxwell, C., Dublin under the Georges (London, 1956).

  Maxwell, C., The Stranger in Ireland (London, 1954).

  Mooney, T. and White, F., ‘The Gentry’s Winter Season’, in David Dickson (ed.), The Gorgeous Mask: Dublin, 1700–1850 (Dublin, 1987).

  Nash, R. C., ‘Irish Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’, The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 42, 3 (1985).

  O’Brien, A., ‘The History of Nelson’s Pillar’, Dublin Historical Record, 60, 1 (2007).

  O’Brien, G., ‘“What can possess you to go to Ireland?”: Visitors’ Perceptions of Dublin, 1800–30’, in G. O’Brien and F. O’Kane (eds.), Georgian Dublin (Dublin, 2008), p. 23.

  O’Brien, G. and O’Kane, F. (eds.), Georgian Dublin (Dublin, 2008).

  Ohlmeyer, J. H., ‘“Civilizinge of those Rude Partes”: Colonization within Britain and Ireland, 1580s–1640s’, in Nicholas Canney (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 1: The Origins of Empire (Oxford, 1998).

  Sheridan, E., ‘Designing the Capital City: Dublin, 1660–1810’, in Joseph Brady and Anngret Simms (eds.), Dublin through Space and Time (Dublin, 2001).

  Sheridan-Quantz, E., ‘The Multi-Centred Metropolis: The Social Topography of Eighteenth-Century Dublin’, in Peter Clark and Raymond Gillespie (eds.), Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500–1840 (Oxford, 2001).

  Somerville-Large, P., Dublin: The First Thousand Years (London, 1988).

  CHAPTER 4: CAPE TOWN

  Barrow, J., An Account of Travels into the Interior of South Africa (London, 1801).

  Burchell, W. J., Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa (London, 1822).

  Campbell, J., Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society (London, 1815).

  Champion, G., The Journal of an American Missionary (Cape Town, 1968).

  Colquhoun, P., A Treatise on the Wealth, Power and Resources of the British Empire, in Every Quarter of the World, Including the East Indies (London, 1815).