Exclusionary empire : English liberty overseas, 1600-1900 / edited by Jack P. Greene.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Empire and liberty / Jack P. Greene -- The language of liberty in British North America, 1607-1776 / Elizabeth Mancke -- Liberty and slavery : the transfer of British liberty to the West Indies, 1627-1865 / Jack P. Greene -- "Era of liberty" : the politics of civil and political rights in eighteenth-century Ireland / James Kelly -- Liberty and modernity : the American Revolution and the making of parliament's imperial history / Eliga H. Gould -- Federalism, democracy, and liberty in the new American nation / Peter S. Onuf -- Liberty, order, and pluralism : the Canadian experience / Philip Girard -- Contested despotism : problems of liberty in British India / Robert Travers -- "A bastard offspring of tyranny under the guise of liberty" : liberty and representative government in Australia, 1788-1901 / Richard Waterhouse -- How much did institutions matter? Cloning Britain in New Zealand / James Belich -- The expansion of British liberties : the South African case / Christopher Saunders.

"Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900"--Jacket.