Europeans abroad, 1450-1750
This innovative book looks beyond the traditional history of European expansion--which highlights European conquests, empire building, and hegemony--in order to explore the more human and realistic dimensions of European experiences abroad. David Ringrose argues that Early Modern Europe was relative...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London
Rowman & Littlefield
[2018]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Exploring world history
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: Perspectives on European expansion
- Europe crosses the threshold
- Ambiguous identity and cultural opportunism?
- An era of empires
- Three American empires
- Africa, Portugal, Brazil, and the Atlantic
- Atlantic North America : no empires to conquer
- An era of world trade
- Europeans and the world : spices, silk, and silver
- Europeans and Asian trade in the seventeenth century
- Disappearing colonists : death, assimilation, and desertion
- Conclusion