caa a22 4500 388053488 CHVBK 20180307125059.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3679286 doi S0080440100011038 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3679286 Marshall P. J. Presidential Address: Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: I, Reshaping the Empire [Elektronische Daten] [P. J. Marshall] By the end of the eighteenth century Britain was a world power on a scale that none of her European rivals could match. Not only did she rule a great empire, but the reach of expeditionary forces from either Britain itself or from British India stretched from the River Plate to the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia. Britain's overseas trade had developed a strongly global orientation: she was die leading distributor of tropical produce diroughout die world and in the last years of the century about four-fifths of her exports were going outside Europe. Britain was at die centre of inter-continental movements of people, not only exporting her own population but shipping almost as many Africans across the Atantic during die eighteenth century as all the other carriers put together. It is not surprising therefore that British historians have searched for the qualities that marked out eighteeth-century Britain's exceptionalism on a world stage. Notable books have stressed, not only the dynamism of die British economy, but developments such as the rise of Britain's ‘fiscal-military state' or die forging of a sense of British national identity behind war and empire overseas. Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1998 Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Cambridge University Press 8(1998-12), 1-18 0080-4401 8<1 1998 8 RHT https://doi.org/10.2307/3679286 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3679286 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Marshall P. J. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Cambridge University Press 8(1998-12), 1-18 0080-4401 8<1 1998 8 RHT CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 388053488 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge