Agents of European overseas empires : Private colonisers, 1450-1800.
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MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Tensions within imperial projects
- Global trade and its benefits for 'the nation': The examples of early modern France and Britain
- Comparing and criticising early modern imperial policies in the Age of Revolution: Abbé Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes
- Global pursuits: English overseas initiatives of the long seventeenth century in perspective
- Part II: The limits of imperial control
- The limits of royal control over migration to Spanish America in the sixteenth century
- Imperial struggles, colonisation and the Dutch slave trade in seventeenth-century New Netherland
- The control of unfree labour across the Dutch Empire in the eighteenth century
- Part III: Local adaptations and developments
- Settler colonialism and early American history
- Colonising the Cape of Good Hope: Company policy and settlers' interests in a contested space of European occupation in Southern Africa
- Shipping mules in the eighteenth century: New England's equine exports to the West Indies
- Epilogue: Perspectives on the mechanisms and impacts of overseas colonisation in the early modern era
- then and now
- Select bibliography
- Index
