Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE: English Garrison Government in Britain and America, 1569-1763 -- PART I: Military Administration in the British Isles, 1569-1676 -- 1. Garrison Government -- The Tudor Prerogative Asserted: The Case of Sir George Carey -- The Stuart Prerogative Assailed: The Case of Sir Ferdinando Gorges -- Civil War and the Growth of Garrison Government: Three English Cases -- The Irish Experience of Garrison Government -- Scotland under Military Government, 1650-1654 -- Garrison Government in the British Isles -- 2. Officers and Governors -- The Roots of Stuart Absolutism -- The Principles of Military Administration -- The Case of the Earl of Carlisle, Military Administrator -- 3. The Grandee, the Courtier, and the Professional -- The Case of Lord Culpeper, Courtier -- Herbert Jeffreys: The Professional Soldier Becomes a Royal Governor -- Coda: Part I. Militant Monarchy: The Arming of the English Executive, 1569-1678 -- PART II: Lord of Jamaica: The English Executive in the West Indies, 1654-1681 -- 4. Design for Empire: Jamaica and the Protectorate -- Imperial Conquest and Political Controversy -- Planting Garrison Government in Jamaica -- Edward D'Oyley: Founder, General, and Governor of Jamaica -- 5. Courtiers and Professionals, Grandees and Aristocrats -- A "Young Lord" Uses Garrison Government -- A Yorkist Courtier in Jamaica -- The Western Design in the Restoration -- Sir Thomas Lynch and the Evolution of the Imperial Constitution -- The Vagaries of Lord Vaughan -- 6. Absolutism versus Autonomy, 1678-1681 -- The Epitome of Garrison Government: 1678 -- Plots and Plans: The Privy Council Debates the Imperial Polity, 1679 -- The Military Prerogative in Jamaican Practice and Imperial Politics, 1679-1680 -- The Exclusion Crisis and the Imperial Constitution, 1680-1681.

Coda: Part II. From Conquest to Constitution: Garrison Government in Jamaica, 1655-1681 -- PART III: Coercion and Constitution: The Old Dominion and the Definition of English Empire in North America, 1676-1683 -- 7. The Imposition of Royal Government on Virginia, 1676-1678 -- Rebellion and Reaction -- Francis Moryson: From Royalism to Imperialism -- Agency and Charter, Proprietorship and Empire -- Autonomy Ended -- Imperial Force -- Berkeley's Resistance -- The Assembly Attacked -- Protection and Obedience: Garrison Government and Social Stability -- Arms and Authority -- 8. The Reluctant Dragon: Thomas Culpeper and the Constitution of the Empire -- Court and Country in Virginia -- Imperial Impositions on Virginia's Constitution -- The Moderation of Thomas, Lord Culpeper -- The Politics of Garrison Government -- Lord Culpeper and the Imperial Constitution, 1680-1681 -- Country Rebellion -- Governor-General Culpeper Cashiered -- Coda: Part III. Garrison Government Comes to the Old Dominion, 1676-1683 -- CONCLUSION: Garrison Government: The English Empire to 1681 -- The First Stage of Empire, 1569-1641 -- The Interregnum: Sword Rule and Military Governors -- The Restoration Empire, 1660-1681 -- The 1681 Settlement -- The Governors-General -- Taxation and Representation: An Imperial View -- The Moderates and the Empire -- EPILOGUE: Four Phases of Empire, 1681-1763 -- APPENDIX: The Governors-General -- Bahamas -- Barbados -- Bermuda -- Bombay -- Dominion of New England -- Dunkirk -- Gibraltar -- Jamaica -- Leeward Islands -- Maryland -- Massachusetts -- Minorca -- Newfoundland -- New York and New Jersey -- Nova Scotia -- South Carolina -- Tangier -- Virginia -- INDEX -- A -- C -- E -- G -- H -- M -- P -- Index of Persons -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Places -- A.

B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Topics -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W.