Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ireland and America: Empire and Revolution
1. How the Local Can Be Global and the Global Local: Ireland, Irish Catholics, and European Overseas Empires, 1500–1900
2. The American Revolution and the Uses and Abuses of Ireland
3. Empire and Resistance: Reflections on the American and Irish Revolutions
4. The Path Not Taken: American Independence and the Irish Counterpoint
5. Peasants, Soldiers, and Revolutionaries: Interpreting Irish Manpower in the Age of Revolutions
6. Dominant Minorities: Irish and Jamaican White Protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s
7. An Empire of Tracts: Mapping Landscapes of Property in the British Atlantic World
8. The Reformation in the Age of Jefferson
9. The Ideology of Imperial Reform: Enlightened Absolutism and the American Colonies
10. A Comparison of the Responses of the Loyal British Colonies to the American Revolution
11. The Strange Afterlife of the Declaration of Independence: The State of Franklin, 1784-c. 1789
12. The Contract for America
13. Becoming Co-Imperialists: Anglo-Americans and the First Opium War
Epilogue: Imperial Peoples: America, Ireland, and the Making of the Modern World
Notes on Contributors
Index