Europeans Abroad, 1450-1750.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442251779
- 909/.0409
- D102 .R564 2018
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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