An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800
European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Om Prakash
April 24, 1997
Regular commercial contacts between Europe and Asia date back to at least the early years of the Christian era, but the pattern of trade underwent a structural modification following the Portuguese discovery of a route to the East Indies via the Cape of Good Hope. This volume illustrates the ...
Slave Trades, 1500–1800: Globalization of Forced Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Manning
December 19, 1996
The trade in slaves is perhaps the most notorious feature of the era of European expansion. Though begun in ancient times, and continued well after 1800, in the early modern period there developed a particular nexus in which it boomed. This volume distinguishes between procurement and trade, and ...
The Atlantic Staple Trade: Volume 1: Commerce and Politics; Volume 2: The Economics of Trade
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Socolow
October 24, 1996
This two volume set reprints the most important standard studies and interpretations of the development of the crucial Atlantic trade. The first volume, concerned with general trade and political economy, approaches the topic from the viewpoint of individual trading nations in the Atlantic - ...
Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World, 1450–1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Sanjay Subrahmanyam
June 20, 1996
Merchant organisation was a global phenomenon in the early modern era, and in the growing contacts between peoples and cultures, merchants may be seen as privileged intermediaries. This collection is unique in essaying a truly global coverage of mercantile activities, from the Wangara of the ...
Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaptation and Adoption
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Adas
March 28, 1996
Technological innovation was crucial to the process of European expansion: advances in astronomy and navigation and changes in weaponry all contributed to the emergence of European commercial enclaves in Africa and Asia, and the conquest of the Americas. This volume illustrates the ways in which ...
Establishing Exceptionalism: Historiography and the Colonial Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Amy Turner Bushnell
December 14, 1995
Since the 1950s historians of the colonial era in North, South and Central America have extended the frontiers of basic general knowledge enormously; this rich historiographical tradition has generated robust methodological discussions about how to study the European encounter in the light of the ...
Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1450–1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Disney
December 14, 1995
The first part of this volume deals with the changes and continuities in historical approaches over the last fifty years, with three further sections focusing on initial contacts, formal presences, and informal presences. Emphasis has been placed on the major European players in Asia and Africa ...
The European Opportunity
1st Edition
By Felipe Fernández-Armesto
September 14, 1995
These 15 articles follow on from those in The Global Opportunity in that they examine how and why the Europeans expanded worldwide. Part one explores the means in terms of science, technology and material resources; part two examines the motives, primarily as a result of restricted resources in ...