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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810537603321

Autore

Paquette Gabriel

Titolo

The European Seaborne Empires : From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions / / Gabriel Paquette

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-300-24527-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 pages)

Classificazione

K503

K504

Disciplina

940.244

Soggetti

Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 - Campaigns

Europe Colonies History

Europe Territorial expansion

Europe Politics and government 17th century

Europe Politics and government 18th century

Europe Colonies Histoire

Europe Expansion territoriale

Europe Politique et gouvernement 17e siècle

Europe Politique et gouvernement 18e siècle

Europe Colonies

Europe

Europa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Definitions of "Empire" and Approaches to the Study of Its History -- 2. Western Europe in a World of Empires -- 3. The First Seaborne Empires: Portugal, Spain, and the Wider World before 1600 -- 4. The Challenge to Iberian Dominance: The Rise of Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic as Competitor Imperial States after 1600 -- 5. Consolidation, Conflict, and Reform in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 6. Law, Governance, and Institutional Frameworks -- 7. The Political Economy of Empire and Its Consequences -- 8. Imperial Migrations: Coerced,



Forced, and "Free" -- 9. Labor Regimes -- 10. Creole Societies, Mestizaje, and the Regulation of Hybridity -- 11. Collaboration, Resistance, and the Fortunes of Empire -- 12. The Age of Revolutions -- Epilogue: Continuities and Disjunctures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to examine their development, from efficacious forms of governance to coercive violence. Beginning with a narrative overview of imperial expansion that incorporates recent critiques of older scholarly approaches, Paquette then analyzes the significance of these empires, including their political, economic, and social consequences and legacies. He makes the multifaceted history of Europe's globe-spanning empires in this crucial period accessible to new readers.