This innovative book looks beyond the traditional history of European expansion--which highlights European conquests, empire building, and hegemony--in order to explore the more human and realistic dimensions of European experiences abroad. David Ringrose argues that Early Modern Europe was relative
Europeans Abroad, 1450-1750
โ Scribed by Ringrose, David R
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- Exploring world history
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Europe crosses the threshold -- Ambiguous identity and cultural opportunism? -- An era of empires -- Three American empires -- Africa, Portugal, Brazil, and the Atlantic -- Atlantic North America : no empires to conquer -- An era of world trade -- Europeans and the world : spices, silk, silver -- Europeans and Asian trade in the seventeenth century -- Disappearing colonists : death assimilation, desertion.;"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"--
โฆ Table of Contents
Europe crosses the threshold --
Ambiguous identity and cultural opportunism? --
An era of empires --
Three American empires --
Africa, Portugal, Brazil, and the Atlantic --
Atlantic North America : no empires to conquer --
An era of world trade --
Europeans and the world : spices, silk, silver --
Europeans and Asian trade in the seventeenth century --
Disappearing colonists : death assimilation, desertion.
โฆ Subjects
Europeans--Foreign countries--History;Imperialism;Imperialism--History;International relations;SOCIAL SCIENCE--Emigration & Immigration;Territorial expansion;History;Electronic books;Europeans -- Foreign countries -- History;Europe -- Relations;Europe -- Territorial expansion -- History;Imperialism -- History;SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration;Europe
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