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The European seaborne empires : from the Thirty Years' War to the age of revolutions /

In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the development 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 re-examine their development, from efficacious forms of governance and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Paquette, Gabriel B., 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.