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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

Map

Introduction

ONE Unfree Labor and the Origins of Empire

TWO Commonwealth and Protectorate Imperialism: The Western Design and Its Consequences, 1654–1660

THREE Restoration Imperialism: The Shaping of Imperial Administration, 1660–1671

FOUR Politicized Empire: The Crown, the African Company, and Centralization, 1671–1678

FIVE Exclusion, the Tory Ascendancy, and the English Empire, 1678–1688

SIX The 1690s: War, Unfree Labor, and Empire

SEVEN The Slave Trade, the Asiento, and the National Interest, 1698–1718

Conclusion

Notes

Index