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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
By SIR CHARLES LUCAS, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., late Assistant
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, formerly Fellow
of All Souls College, Oxford
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CHAPTER II
ENGLAND AND THE OPENING OF THE ATLANTIC
By J. A. WILLIAMSON, M.A., D.Lit.
By A. P. NEWTON, D.Lit., F.S.A., Rhodes Professor of Imperial
History in the University of London, Fellow of King's College,
London.
I. THE SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
By J. HOLLAND ROSE, Litt.D., Vere Harmsworth Professor of Naval
History, Fellow of Christ's College, and F. R. SALTER, М.А.,
Fellow and Tutor of Magdalene College.
Sir Thomas More
The Significance of More's Utopia
Shakespeare and the New World
Francis Drake
Drake in the Pacific
Frobisher's Voyages
Gilbert and the Western Quest
The Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
Sir Walter Raleigh
Hostility to Spain
The Fall of Raleigh
II. NATIONAL SECURITY AND EXPANSION,
1580-1660
By J. HOLLAND Rose, Litt.D.
Geographical and Political Factors in the Struggle with Spain
Superiority of the English Navy
The Rupture with Spain, 1585
English and Spanish Naval Strategy
Efforts against the Spanish Flota
Exhaustion of Spain
Oceanic Commerce and Anglo-Dutch Rivalry
Decline of Naval Efficiency
Colonisation and Maritime Enterprise
National Unity and Colonial Security
Cromwell's Naval Supremacy
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CHAPTER V
THE GREAT EMIGRATION, 1618-1648
By A. P. NEWTON, D.Lit., F.S.A.
Comparative Paucity of Emigration under James I
Economic and Religious Difficulties
The Amazons Company
The Breach with Spain
The first Settlement of St Christopher
Conflicting Grants of Barbados
The Council of New England
The Tobacco Contract
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CHAPTER VI
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE OUTER WORLD,
1450-1648
By A. PEARCE HIGGINS, C.B.E., LL.D., K.C., Whewell Professor
of International Law, Fellow of Trinity College.
CHAPTER IX
THE ACTS OF TRADE
By CHARLES M. ANDREWS, L.H.D., Farnam Professor of
American History in Yale University.
Formulation of a definite Commercial and Colonial Programme
Early Councils of Trade
The Navigation Act of 1660
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RIVALRY FOR COLONIAL POWER, 1660-1713
By W. F. REDDAWAY, M.A., Fellow of King's College and
University Lecturer in History.
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CHAPTER XI
THE WEST INDIES AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN
TRADE, 1713-1748
By LILLIAN M. PENSON, Ph.D., Lecturer in History in
Birkbeck College, University of London.