Agents of European overseas empires: Private colonisers, 1450-1800 (Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies #19)

By: Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber and L. H. Roper and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Agnès Delahaye

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 280 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781526167347
Related ISBNs:: 9781526167330, 9781526167323
Publisher:: Manchester University Press
Date of Addition:: 03/11/24
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber
Edited by:: L. H. Roper
Edited by:: Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
Edited by:: Agnès Delahaye