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 The Expansion of England 357 English Settlements in North America: Green, Chapter VIII, sect. 4; Colby, pp. 184-188; Kendall, pp. 216-219, 222-225. Contest between France and England for Colonial Dominion : Gar- diner, pp. 751-767; Green, Chapter X, sect. 1 ; Andrews, pp. 445- 454; Hassall, pp. 241-279; Terry, pp. 899-910; Colby, pp. 242-256; Kendall, pp. 342-349. American Independence : Green, Chapter X, sect. 2 ; Gardiner, pp. 770-774, 777-798; Andrews, pp. 459-467; Colby, pp. 258-261; Kendall, pp. 350-360; Hassall, pp. 332-349. There are several excellent brief accounts of the expansion of Eng- land. Perhaps the best introductory outline is Woodward, A Short History of the Expansion of the British Empire, 2d ed., 1902. Seeley, Expansion of England, 1883, is a suggestive but easily overrated book. Morris, History of Colonization, 2 vols., 1900. A general sketch of colonization from ancient times. The second volume is largely devoted to England, and is equipped with excellent bibliographies. Cheyney, The European Background of American History, 1904. Especially valuable for the English institutions transplanted in America. Farrand, Basis of American History, 1904. A critical account of the American world into which the settlers came. Lodge, A Short History of the English Colonies i?i America, 188 1. A useful single-volume work. Thwaites, The Colonies, i4g2-iy^o, 1894, in Epochs of American History. A remarkably compact work, with bibliographies. Edgar, The Struggle for a Continent, 1902. The best concise history of the Anglo-French contest in America. Lyall, The Rise of British Dominion in India, 1893. The best short account. Hunter, Brief History of the Indian Peoples. Especially valuable for native affairs. There are also useful books by Malleson : The Founders of the Indian Empire, 1882; History of the French in India, 1868; and Final French Struggles in India, 1878. There is no satisfactory brief history for the eighteenth century. The great work is that by Lecky, History of England in the Eighteenth Century, 8 vols. Not a chronological narrative, but a series of invalu- able studies of many aspects of English life. McCarthy, The Four Georges, 2 vols., 1885. May be used in absence of anything better. B. Addi- tional read- ing in English. Brief general accounts of the ex- pansion of England. The English in America. British India. England in the eighteenth century.