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Agents of European overseas empires
Private colonisers, 1450-1800
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2024
About this book
Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: ‘private’ European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities. The chapters adopt intra- as well as inter-imperial perspectives and transport the reader to colonial America, the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, or Ceylon, through the Dutch, English, French and Spanish empires. Agents of European overseas empires offers crucial insight on how these actors acquired profits and power and, in turn, laid the platforms for European global empires.
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Agnès Delahaye is Professor of American History at Lyon 2 University
Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber is Associate Professor of American History at Poitiers University
L. H. Roper is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke is Professor of American History at Paris 8 University (Vincennes Saint-Denis)
Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber is Associate Professor of American History at Poitiers University
L. H. Roper is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke is Professor of American History at Paris 8 University (Vincennes Saint-Denis)
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‘Adds new perspectives and voices to the history of imperialism within the early modern Atlantic world … The book’s organization also lends itself toward serving as a valuable pedagogical tool … a powerful and convincing invitation to reimagine the early modern Atlantic.’
—Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 55, no. 3-4
—Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 55, no. 3-4
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
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I Tensions within imperial projects
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1 Global trade and its benefits for ‘the nation’
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2 Comparing and criticising early modern imperial policies in the Age of Revolution
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3 Global pursuits
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II The limits of imperial control
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4 The limits of royal control over migration to Spanish America in the sixteenth century
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5 Imperial struggles, colonisation and the Dutch slave trade in seventeenth- century New Netherland
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6 The control of unfree labour across the Dutch Empire in the eighteenth century
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III Local adaptations and developments
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7 Settler colonialism and early American history
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8 Colonising the Cape of Good Hope
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9 Shipping mules in the eighteenth century
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Epilogue
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Select bibliography
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Index
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April 22, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781526167347
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Keywords for this book
empire; trade; colonisation; enslavement; law; migration; companies; piracy; state; Settler colonialism
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
