INTRODUCTION Motives for Overseas Expansion. Ships. Navigation. Conditions on Board Ship. The Text
1. First Intrusions into the Caribbean: Anglo-Spanish Trade. The Arrival of John Rut (1527).
2. John Hawkins and the Slave Trade (1562-68).
3. The War of Reprisals (1569-78): Drake's Voyages. Other Privateering Voyages. The Voyage of John Oxenham.
4. The Privateering War I (1585-95): The Road to War. Drake's Voyage (1585-86). Other Privateering Voyages (1586-95).
5. The Privateering War II (1595-1604): The Return of Drake and Hawkins (1595-96). The Continuation of the Privateering War (1596-1604). The First Trading Voyages (1599-1604).
6. Trade, Settlement and Privateering (1604-55): New Objectives. The Voyage of Sir Henry Colt (1631). The Voyages of William Jackson (1638-45). Cromwell's Western Design (1654-55).
7. The Buccaneers in the Caribbean: Origins (1630s-50s). Heyday (1660s-70s). Henry Morgan. Decline and New Horizons from the 1670s. Piracy (1697-1720s).
8. The Royal Navy in the West Indies (1655-1762): The Jamaica Squadron. Naval War (1667-1739). The Expeditions of Edward Vernon (1739-42). The Expedition to Havana (1762).
1. The First Explorers (1480-1547): Bristol and the New World. John Cabot. The English Discovery of America. Last Voyages of the Reign of Henry VII (1501-05). Voyages of the Reign of Henry VIII (1509-47).
2. The Birth of New Interests (1576-90): Martin Frobisher and the North West Passage (1576-90). The Arctic Voyages of John Davis (1585-87). Colonial Projects of Humphrey Gilbert Ralegh and the Amadas-Barlow Voyage to Virginia (1584). Return to Virginia (1587).
3. The North West Passage from 1602: The East India Company. Voyages of Waymouth and Knight (1602-06). Voyages of Henry Hudson (1607-11). Button, Gibbons, Bylot and Hawkridge (1612-19). Voyages of Foxe and James (1631-32). The Enduring Quest.
4. From Exploration to Colonial Expansion (1591-1681): The Gulf of St. Lawrence (1591-97). Northern Virginia (1602-05). Return to Roanoke and S. Virginia ( 1600-03). The Virginia Colony (1602-24). New England (1606-20). Newfoundland (1610-32). Colonial Expansion (1634-81).
1. Brazil and the Lure of Peru :Voyages of William Hawkins and others to Brazil (1530-42). First News of the South Sea and Peru (1526-89). Richard Grenville's Project for the South Sea and South Atlantic (1574).
2. Drake's Circumnavigation (1577-80).
3. Drake's Successors en route to Peru (1582-94: Edward Fenton (1582-83). The Expedition of the Earl of Cumberland (1586-87). The Circumnavigation of Thomas Cavendish (1586-88). The Voyage of the Delight of Bristol (1589-90). The Tragic Return of Cavendish (1591-93).
4. Brazil and the Coast of Guiana (1580-1631): Trading Voyages to Brazil (1580-95). Ralegh's Expedition to Guiana (1595). Voyages of Keymis and Berry (1596-97). Ralegh's Last Venture (1617-18). Trade and Settlement in Guiana and on the R. Amazon (1604-31).
5. Return to the South Sea: England and the South Sea in the Post-Elizabethan Era (1603-70). The Voyage of John Narborough to Chile (1669-71). The Expedition of John Strong (1689-91).
6. The Buccaneers in the South Sea: Coxon, Sawkins and Sharp (1679-82). The Second Wave (1684-87) - Cook, Eaton, Davis, Dampier, Swan, Harris, Knight.
7. New Circumnavigations and the Last Privateers(1703-22): The Voyage of William Dampier (1703-07). Woodes Rogers (1708-11). The South Sea Company. The Last Privateers - Clipperton and Shelvocke (1719-22).
8. The First Naval Expeditions (1740-66): The Voyage of George Anson (1740-44). The Expedition of John Byron (1764-66).
Epilogue The Falkland Isles. Terra Australis Incognita. The North West Passage. The 19th Century - Scientists and Naval Seamen.
Bibliography mainly of works in English
Index of Persons, Places and Ships' Names
[published by Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston NY: 1999, 'Sudies in British History', no. 57) ISBN 0-7734-7866-3]