European and Non-European Societies, 1450-1800

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• The process of European expansion brought into contact across the world societies and cultures initially alien to one another. Conflict, and violent c... Lees meer

Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion

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• The emergence of a widespread 'plantation complex', in which slave labour produced crops such as sugar on large estates funded by European capital, wa... Lees meer

Technology and European Overseas Enterprise

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• Technological innovation was crucial to the process of European expansion: advances in astronomy and navigation and changes in weaponry all contribute... Lees meer

Spices in the Indian Ocean World

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• By turns exotic, valuable and of cardinal importance in the development of world trade, spices, as the editor reminds us, are today a mundane accessor... Lees meer

European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and Customs in Africa, America and Asia Before 1800

Evelyn S Rawski

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• European intrusions had many impacts on invaded peoples, but less attention has often been paid to changes brought about by the encounter in everyday ... Lees meer

Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy

Arturo Giráldez

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• The literature on early-modern monetary history is vast and rich, yet overly Eurocentric. This book takes a global approach. It calls attention to the... Lees meer

Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas

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• This volume focuses on Latin America, since it was mainly there that Europeans (or their colonial descendants) actually engaged in mining in the 16th-... Lees meer

Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World, 1450-1800

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• Merchant organisation was a global phenomenon in the early modern era, and in the growing contacts between peoples and cultures, merchants may be seen... Lees meer

The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed

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• This volume reflects the advances in research and methodology that have been made since 1960, as well as the increasing number of topics covered by th... Lees meer

Establishing Exceptionalism

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• Since the 1950s historians of the colonial era in North, South and Central America have extended the frontiers of basic general knowledge enormously; ... Lees meer

The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed

• Paperback | Engels | Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450
• This volume reflects the advances in research and methodology that have been made since 1960, as well as the increasing number of topics covered by th... Lees meer

Warfare and Empires

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• It is commonplace that warfare was integral to the European expansion, pitting the superiorities of the European against the inferiorities of the 'nat... Lees meer

The European Opportunity

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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• These 15 articles follow on from those in The Global Opportunity in that they examine how and why the Europeans expanded worldwide. Part one explores ... Lees meer

European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia

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• Regular commercial contacts between Europe and Asia date back to at least the early years of the Christian era, but the pattern of trade underwent a s... Lees meer

Slave Trades, 1500-1800

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• The trade in slaves is perhaps the most notorious feature of the era of European expansion. Though begun in ancient times, and continued well after 18... Lees meer

Spices in the Indian Ocean World

• Hardcover | Engels | Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450
• By turns exotic, valuable and of cardinal importance in the development of world trade, spices, as the editor reminds us, are today a mundane accessor... Lees meer

Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand

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• This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration. Major themes include: the opening of... Lees meer

Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand

• Paperback | Engels | Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450
• This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration. Major themes include: the opening of... Lees meer

Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change

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• This volume examines the ecological consequences of European expansion as a result of land use and resource exploitation. These environmental transfor... Lees meer

The Atlantic Staple Trade

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• This two volume set reprints the most important standard studies and interpretations of the development of the crucial Atlantic trade. The first volum... Lees meer