Coffee, association, and cultural hybridity in seventeenth-century England -- Improvement and the discourse of society in eighteenth-century Ireland -- The authority of the defeated: catholic languages of the moral order in the eighteenth century -- The experience of empire: the black family, britons, and the emergence of society -- A habitat for hopeful monsters: David Hume and the Scottish theorists of civil Society -- Civil society and empire in revolution: Ireland and Britain in the 1790s
