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Agents of European Overseas Empires

Agents of European Overseas Empires Private Colonisers, 1450-1800 - Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Studies

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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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Manchester University Press

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Book information

ISBN: 9781526167330
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 325.34
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 476g
Height: 146mm
Width: 223mm
Spine width: 24mm