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 358 Readings iti Eiwopcan History C. Materials for advanced study. Expansion of England. England in America. British India. Sydney, England in the Eighteenth Century, 2 vols., 1891. Interest- ing social history. Morley's Walpole and Burke, and Rosebery's Pitt are useful short essays on these statesmen. There is no adequate general history of the expansion of England. The nearest approach is Lucas, A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, 5 vols., 1888-1891. The introductory volume is an excellent outline. Useful bibliographies are given. Egerton, A Short History of British Colonial Policy, 1897. The best work on British colonial policy. Seeley, Growth of British Policy, 2 vols., 1895. Mahax, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660- 1783, 1889. A suggestive work on the relation of sea power to expansion. The sources for the beginnings of English expansion are to be sought in the "Calendars of State Papers, Colonial Series," and in the extensive pub- lications of the Hakluyt Society, old series, 94 vols., 1847-1896; new series, 15 vols., 1 899-1904. Doyle, The English in America, 3 vols., 1882-1887, and Osgood, The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols., 1904, are the authorities for the early period of colonization. Channing, A History of the United States, to be completed in 8 vols. Vol. I, covering the period 1 000-1660, has appeared. An insight into the character of the colonial age is afforded by Cotton Mather's Magnalia, Stith's History of Virginia, Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence, and Budd's Good Order established in Pennsylvania and New fersey, 1685. For the French in America, the voluminous writings of Parkman are indispensable. The fesuit Relations and Allied Documents, edited by Thwaites, 73 vols., 1896^^. A vast collection of the accounts of Jesuit explorations and activities in America. For a full bibliography the student will turn to Channing and Hart, Guide to the Study of American History. There is no great authority for the whole period of British-Indian history. Hunter, A History of British India, 2 vols., 1899-1900. Full and scholarly, but unfortunately broken off at the opening of the eighteenth century. Bruce, Annals of the East India Company, 3 vols., 18 10. A dry account based upon the records, extending only to the beginning of the eighteenth century. ORME, History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in India from IJ45 to 1761, 3 parts, 1763—1778. A laborious work by an