Figure 1.1
Spice Routes from Asia to Europe

Figure 2.1
Staple Regions in North America and the Caribbean, 1764-1775

Figure 2.2
Expansion of the English Fishery Around the Coast of Newfoundland, 1570-1770

Figure 2.4
Newfoundland Dried Fish Trade in the Eighteenth Century

Figure 2.9
Expansion of Sugar Cultivation in the English West Indies, Mid-Seventeenth Century

Figure 2.12
Slave Shipments from West Africa to the Caribbean and North America, 1651-1775

Figure 2.15
Plan of Carrickfoyle Estate, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, 1793

Figure 2.18
Fur Trade Through Hudson Bay, 1760s

Figure 2.20
Atlantic Staple Trades, Mid-Eighteenth Century

Figure 3.1
Expansion of the English Fishery into the Gulf of Maine,
Early Seventeenth Century

Figure 3.3
New England Banks Fishery,
Early Eighteenth Century

Figure 3.5
Western Atlantic Cod Fishery,
circa 1770

Figure 3.8
English Settlement in the Chesapeake, 1675

Figure 3.9
Dispersed Settlement in Westmoreland
County, Virginia, 1643-1742

Figure 3.11
Land in the Counties of Northern Virginia Owned by Robert Carter of Nomini Hall, 1775

Figure 3.12
Settlement in the Chesapeake, 1760

Figure 3.15
European Settlement in the Carolina Low Country, 1740

Figure 3.16
Bluff Plantation, Cooper River, South Carolina, Early Nineteenth Century

Figure 4.1
Regional Origins of English Migrants to New England

Figure 4.2
English Settlement in New England, 1675

Figure 4.3
Settlement in New England, 1760

Figure 4.4
From nucleated to dispersed settlement: Sudbury, Massachusetts

Figure 4.6
New England Overseas Trade, 1768-1772

Figure 4.7
Generalized Land-Use in New England, Late Eighteenth Century

Figure 4.14
Regional Origins of Scots-Irish and German Migrants to North America, 1700-1775

Figure 4.15
European Settlement in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, 1675

Figure 4.16
Settlement in the Mid-Atlantic colonies, 1760

Figure 4.16
Settlement in the Mid-Atlantic colonies, 1760

Figure 4.18
Mid-Atlantic Overseas Trade, 1768-1772

Figure 4.21
Ethnic Settlement in the Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, 1750

Figure 4.25
European Settlement in the Southern Backcountry, 1760

Figure 4.26
Principal Roads in the Southern Backcountry, circa 1775

Figure 4.27
Open Country Neighborhoods, Frederick County, Virginia, 1730-1745

Figure 4.28
Backcountry Trade, circa 1770

Figure 4.29
Winchester, Virginia, 1777

Figure 4.31
Continental Agricultural Frontier, 1770

Figure 5.1
Distribution of Leading Urban Places in British America, circa 1770

Figure 5.2
Distribution of Urban Places in New England, the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, and the Chesapeake, circa 1770

Figure 5.4
Plan of Williamsburg, 1781

Figure 5.5
Mercantile Triangle in Charleston, 1780s

Figure 6.4
European Settlement in Nova Scotia, circa 1750

Figure 6.5
French fur trade, early 1750s

Figure 6.6
British campaigns in the French and Indian War, 1754-1763

Figure 6.11
Channel Islands Migratory Fishery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, circa 1770

Figure 6.13
Fur Trade from London, circa 1770

Figure 6.15
A Geographical Model of Britain’s Atlantic Empire, circa 1770

Figure 6.18
British and American Empires in the Mid-1780s