An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800
Facing Each Other (2 Volumes): The World’s Perception of Europe and Europe’s Perception of the World
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By Anthony Pagden
May 30, 2018
The perception of Europeans of the world and of the peoples beyond Europe has become in recent years the subject of intense scholarly interest and heated debate both in and outside the academy. So, too, has the concern with how it was that those peoples who were variously ’discovered’, and then, as...
Spices in the Indian Ocean World
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By M.N. Pearson
September 09, 2016
By turns exotic, valuable and of cardinal importance in the development of world trade, spices, as the editor reminds us, are today a mundane accessory in any well-equiped kitchen; in the 15th-18th centuries, the spice trade from the Indian Ocean to markets all over the world was a major economic ...
The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed
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By Ursula Lamb
September 09, 2016
This volume reflects the advances in research and methodology that have been made since 1960, as well as the increasing number of topics covered by the historiography of the European expansion. The studies selected demonstrate the range of this material, focusing in particular on the beginnings of ...
Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand
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By Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui
September 08, 2016
This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration. Major themes include: the opening of new markets and responses to competition in the cloth trade, evolving techniques and modes of production, and changes in the patterns of consumption...
European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and Customs in Africa, America and Asia before 1800
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By Murdo J. MacLeod, Evelyn S. Rawski
October 28, 1998
European intrusions had many impacts on invaded peoples, but less attention has often been paid to changes brought about by the encounter in everyday life and behaviour, both for the Europeans and the other cultures. What changed in diet, dress, agriculture, warfare and use of domesticated animals,...
Christianity and Missions, 1450–1800
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By J. S. Cummins
December 15, 1997
The theme of this volume is the transformation of European Christianity into a world-wide religion. The spirit of crusade against Islam was one impulse driving the early expansion; these essays show how new ideologies of mission were developed and how perceptions have continued to evolve, notably ...
Warfare and Empires: Contact and Conflict Between European and Non-European Military and Maritime Forces and Cultures
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By Douglas M. Peers
October 23, 1997
It is commonplace that warfare was integral to the European expansion, pitting the superiorities of the European against the inferiorities of the ’native’. The aim of this book is to look deeper, and to examine the technological, political and economic structures and capacities of the competing ...
Biological Consequences of the European Expansion, 1450–1800
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By Kenneth F. Kiple, Stephen V. Beck
October 16, 1997
’Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.’ So wrote Charles Darwin in 1836. Though there has been considerable discussion concerning their precise demographic impact, reflected in the articles here, there is no doubt that the arrival of new diseases with the Europeans (...
Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change
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By Helen Wheatley
July 24, 1997
This volume examines the ecological consequences of European expansion as a result of land use and resource exploitation. These environmental transformations could be as dramatic as the last Ice Age, but scholars have only begun to take full measure of the changes. The articles presented here ...
Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion
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By Judy Bieber
July 03, 1997
The emergence of a widespread ’plantation complex’, in which slave labour produced crops such as sugar on large estates funded by European capital, was a phenomenon of the New World. This book shows how the institution of slavery was transformed by the demand for labour in the Americas, to fill the...
Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas
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By Peter Bakewell
May 29, 1997
This volume focuses on Latin America, since it was mainly there that Europeans (or their colonial descendants) actually engaged in mining in the 16th-19th centuries; elsewhere they traded metals mined by others. The principal metals produced, and in prodigious quantities, were silver, in the ...
Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy
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By Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez
May 28, 1997
The literature on early-modern monetary history is vast and rich, yet overly Eurocentric. This book takes a global approach. It calls attention to the fact that, for example, Japan and South America were dominant in silver production, while China was the principal end-market; key areas for ...