by Martin Daunton (Editor), Rick Halpern (Editor)

Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The process, unconfined to the British Isles, ran across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean and was played out in North America and the Caribbean. The

Author Biography

Martin Daunton is Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge. Rick Halpern is Reader in the History of the United States at University College London.