Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. I Tensions within imperial projects 21
8. 1 Global trade and its benefits for ‘the nation’ 23
9. 2 Comparing and criticising early modern imperial policies in the Age of Revolution 45
10. 3 Global pursuits 66
11. II The limits of imperial control 89
12. 4 The limits of royal control over migration to Spanish America in the sixteenth century 91
13. 5 Imperial struggles, colonisation and the Dutch slave trade in seventeenth- century New Netherland 108
14. 6 The control of unfree labour across the Dutch Empire in the eighteenth century 129
15. III Local adaptations and developments 151
16. 7 Settler colonialism and early American history 153
17. 8 Colonising the Cape of Good Hope 179
18. 9 Shipping mules in the eighteenth century 200
19. Epilogue 223
20. Select bibliography 233
21. Index 254