Preface and acknowledgements
Part I. The Field Proposed: 1. The Antipodean perception
2. British history: a plea for a new subject
Part II. The Three Kingdoms and the English Problem: 3. The field enlarged: an introduction
4. Two kingdoms and three histories? Political thought in British contexts
5. The Atlantic archipelago and the War of the Three Kingdoms
6. The third kingdom in its history
Part III. Empire and Rebellion in the First Age of Union: 7. Archipelago, Europe and Atlantic after 1688
8. The significance of 1688: some reflections on Whig history
9. Empire, state and confederation: the war of American independence as a crisis in multiple monarchy
10. The Union of 1801 in British history
Part IV. New Zealand in the Strange Multiplicity: 11. The neo-Britains and the three empires
12. Tangata whenua and Enlightenment anthropology
13. Law, sovereignty and history in a divided culture: the case of New Zealand and the Treaty of Waitangi
Part V. Britain, Europe and Post-Modern History: 14. Sovereignty and history in the late twentieth century
15. Deconstructing Europe
16. The politics of the new British history
17. Conclusion: history, sovereignty, identity
Bibliographies
Index.
