Includes index.
Introduction
Part I. Reason and prejudice: early formation, 1730-1750
The Blackwater, Ballitore, Trinity, and the reformer
Part II. Antinomianism and enlightenment: intellectual formation, 1750-1765
Natural society and natural religion, 1750-1756
The philosophical enquiry: science of the passions, 1757
Conquest and assimilation, 1757-1765
Part III. Party, sovereignty and empire, 1765-1774
Party, popularity and dissent: Britain and Ireland, 1765-1774
Collision with the colonies, 1765-1774
A revolution in ideas: the Indian empire, 1766-1774
Part IV. Conquest, conciliation and representation, 1774-1785
Representation and reform: Britain and Ireland, 1774-1784
Consent and conciliation: America, 1774-1783
A dreadful state of things: Madras and Bengal, 1777-1785
Part V. Whiggism, Jacobinism, Indianism and ascendancy, 1785-1797
The advent of crisis: Britain, India and France, 1785-1790
The opening of the Hastings Impeachment, 1786-1788
The great primaeval contract: reflections on the revolution in France, 1790
Whig principles and Jacobin dogma, 1791-1793
The pursuit of Hastings, 1788-1796
Revolutionary crescendo: Britain, Ireland and France, 1793-1797
Conclusion.
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