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Agents of European Overseas Empires: Private Colonisers, 1450-1800

by Agents of European Overseas Empires: Private Colonisers, 1450-1800
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Mar 2024
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Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities. The chapters adopt intra- as well as inter-imperial perspectives and transport the reader to colonial America, the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, or Ceylon, through the Dutch, English, French and Spanish empires. Agents of European overseas empires offers crucial insight on how these actors acquired profits and power and, in turn, laid the platforms for European global empires.

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PublisherManchester University Press
PublishedMar 12, 2024
ISBN-101526167336
ISBN-139781526167330
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions8.5 × 0.69 × 5.43 in
Weight1 lb

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