1. See, for example, K. N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, 1985); Stephen Hornsby, British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America (Lebanon, NH, 2005).
2. For example, P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism, 1688–2000 (Harlow, 1993).
3. Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800–1830 (Cambridge, 20 03).
4. Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez, ‘Cycles of Silver: Global Economic Unity through the Mid-Eighteenth Century’, Journal of World History, 13 (2002) 391–427.
5. John Dee, The Limits of the British Empire, eds. Ken MacMillan and Jennifer Abeles (Westport. CT, 2004); Peter C. Mancall, Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (New Haven, 2007), p. 47.