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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455554003321

Autore

Seymour M. J (Michael J.)

Titolo

The transformation of the North Atlantic world, 1492-1763 [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / M.J. Seymour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2004

ISBN

1-282-40872-0

9786612408724

0-313-05692-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Studies in military history and international affairs, , 1537-4432

Disciplina

909.08

Soggetti

Discoveries in geography

Electronic books.

Europe Territorial expansion

America Discovery and exploration

Europe Colonies History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Framing the Questions; Chapter 1: Setting the Scene; Chapter 2: Going There and Getting Back: Technological and Technical Prerequisites and Developments in Travel; Chapter 3: Conquest and Coercion: Technological and Technical Prerequisites and Developments in Warfare; Chapter 4: Exploitation; Chapter 5: The Availability or Absence of Alternatives to North Atlantic Expansion; Chapter 6: The Push and Pull of Environmental Factors; Chapter 7: 1492-1607: From the Halls of Motecuçoma to the Lodge of Pocahontas

Chapter 8: 1607-1697: La Nouvelle-France, New England, Nieuw Nederland, and Nya SverigeChapter 9: 1697-1763: Rule Britannia?; Conclusions and Prospects; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Between Columbus' first expedition in 1492 and the Peace of Paris in 1763, West Europeans created empires of trade and settlement that re-made the social, economic, and political environments not only of their own peoples, but also those of the other societies around the North Atlantic. This study invites readers new to early modern Atlantic Studies



to consider from some possible explanations for these extraordinary transformations of the lives of millions of people, free and unfree, and of the political powers of societies that previously had been separated by rather than linked by the ocean.