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The First British Empire

	The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire: Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century Vol 1 Buy new: £22.75 / Used from: £9.50 An excellent collection of essays by a number of leading historians that chart the emergence of the British Empire.
	The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century: Eighteenth Century Vol 2 Buy new: £21.37 / Used from: £17.00 The sceond volume in Oxford's excellent history covers the maturation of the first empire and its eventual decline.
	Revolutionary Empire: Rise of the English-speaking Empire from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780's by Angus Calder Buy new: £12.75 / Used from: £5.50 An extremely readable account of the the first phase of English expansion
	Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630 (Cambridge Paperback Library) by Kenneth R. Andrews Buy new: £40.85 / Used from: £37.70
	The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Ideas in Context) by David Armitage Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £15.00
	Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 by Linda Colley Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.35 A fascinating book which demonstrates that Britain's expansion was expansion was neither inevitable nor inexorable.
	The British in the Americas, 1480-1815 (Studies In Modern History) by A. Mcfarlane Buy new: £28.49 / Used from: £19.85 A good short introduction to the British involvement in the Western Hemisphere during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
	A History of the Peoples of Canada: A Pre-confederation History v.1: A Pre-confederation History Vol 1 by J.M. Bumsted Buy used from: £1.78 An excellent social history that provides a good overview of British settlement of the region.
	Fortified Trade Posts: The English in West Africa, 1645-1822 by A.W. Lawrence Buy used from: £49.97
	The Royal African Company: 5 (The rise of international business) by K.G. Davies Buy new: £166.25 / Used from: £202.68
	The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760-1810 (Modern Revivals in History) by Roger Anstey Buy used from: £52.49 A good study of the imperial component of the Atlantic slave trade and the emergence of the abolition movement.
	The East India Company: A History, 1600-1857 (Studies In Modern History) by P. Lawson Buy new: £26.57 / Used from: £26.49 Lawson provides an excellent short introduction to the famous British East India Company.
	The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company by John Keay Buy used from: £14.00 Keay captures the more dramatic elements of the Company's history in a good read.
	Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 by Fred Anderson Buy new: £8.21 / Used from: £5.14 Anderson's book is a fantastic account of the Seven Years War in North America, one that shows the interaction between trade, empire, and politics.
	The War for America, 1775-1783 by Piers Mackesy Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £12.62 Provides the imperial dimension of the American War for Independence, the event credited with ending the first phase of imperialism.
	Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830 (Studies In Modern History) by C.A. Bayly Buy new: £39.89 / Used from: £9.50 Bayly's book examines the adjustments made after the end of the American Revolution.