The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 provides a comprehensive history of this complex period and explores the contrasting worlds of the British and the French Empires as they strove to develop new societies in the Americas.

Peter Rushton is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sunderland. He has published widely on aspects of the personal and social relations of early modern England, from witchcraft, welfare, to problems of marriage and family life.

Gwenda Morgan, formerly Reader in American History and American Studies at the University of Sunderland, is now Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Durham. She has published on law and society in colonial America and the young republic, a monograph on Richmond County, Virginia, and The Debate on the American Revolution (2007)

Together, they have published Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: the Formation of the Criminal Atlantic (2003) and Banishment in the Early Atlantic World: Convicts, Rebels and Slaves (2013)

PART 1: Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Exploration and Settlement; Chapter 3. New Societies; Chapter 4. Wars across the Atlantic; Chapter 5. Resistance, Rebellions and Revolutions; Chapter 6. Conclusion; PART 2: Chapter 7. Documents; Chapter 8. Further Reading and References