Europeans Abroad, 1450-1750.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Exploring World History Series .
- Exploring World History Series .
Cover page -- Europeans Abroad, 1450-1750 -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Europe Crosses the Threshold -- CHAPTER TWO Ambiguous Identity and Cultural Opportunism? -- CHAPTER THREE An Era of Empires -- CHAPTER FOUR Three American Empires -- CHAPTER FIVE Africa, Portugal, Brazil, and the Atlantic -- CHAPTER SIX Atlantic North America No Empires to Conquer -- CHAPTER SEVEN An Era of World Trade -- CHAPTER EIGHT Europeans and the World Spices, Silk, and Silver -- CHAPTER NINE Europeans and Asian Trade in the Seventeenth Century -- CHAPTER TEN Disappearing Colonists Death, Assimilation, and Desertion -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
David Ringrose looks beyond the traditional history of European expansion--which highlights European conquests, empire building, and hegemony--in order to explore the more human and genuinely cross-cultural dimensions of Europeans abroad before 1750.