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The European Seaborne Empires
From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions
- 280 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Yes, you can access The European Seaborne Empires by Gabriel Paquette in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Early Modern History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Definitions of “Empire” and Approaches to the Study of Its History
- 2. Western Europe in a World of Empires
- 3. The First Seaborne Empires: Portugal, Spain, and the Wider World before 1600
- 4. The Challenge to Iberian Dominance: The Rise of Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic as Competitor Imperial States after 1600
- 5. Consolidation, Conflict, and Reform in the Long Eighteenth Century
- 6. Law, Governance, and Institutional Frameworks
- 7. The Political Economy of Empire and Its Consequences
- 8. Imperial Migrations: Coerced, Forced, and “Free”
- 9. Labor Regimes
- 10. Creole Societies, Mestizaje, and the Regulation of Hybridity
- 11. Collaboration, Resistance, and the Fortunes of Empire
- 12. The Age of Revolutions
- Epilogue: Continuities and Disjunctures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index