Download or read book Rule Britannia! the English Empire (1660-1763) written by The Open The Open Courses Library and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660-1763 U.S. History The eighteenth century witnessed the birth of Great Britain (after the union of England and Scotland in 1707) and the expansion of the British Empire. By the mid-1700s, Great Britain had developed into a commercial and military powerhouse; its economic sway ranged from India, where the British East India Company had gained control over both trade and territory, to the West African coast, where British slave traders predominated, and to the British West Indies, whose lucrative sugar plantations, especially in Barbados and Jamaica, provided windfall profits for British planters. Meanwhile, the population rose dramatically in Britain's North American colonies. In the early 1700s the population in the colonies had reached 250,000. By 1750, however, over a million British migrants and African slaves had established a near-continuous zone of settlement on the Atlantic coast from Maine to Georgia. Chapter Outline: Introduction Charles II and the Restoration Colonies The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution Great Awakening and Enlightenment Wars for Empire The Open Courses Library introduces you to the best Open Source Courses.