A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies

Vol. 5

Abbe Raynal

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781000558432
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

First published in 1777, Abbe Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal (1713-96) was a French Philosopher, historian and priest. On leaving his parish in Paris, he devoted himself to writing and the society of philosophes. He produced a number of historical works, including this famous history of the European colonies (part of which some modern scholars attribute to Diderot). This is Volume five of a collection of six volumes of his work Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies.

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• ADEN (situate at the most southern extremity of Arabia) was once the most flourishing factory in Asia, and continued to be for many ages, v. i. p. 339.
  • Its present decline and low state of its trade, which is removed to Mocha, with an account of the articles and value of the trade at that place, 340.
• Afghans, their situation in Candahar, a mountainous country, lying north of India, v. i. p. 352.
  • Their manners, revolutions in government, and singular method of fighting, ibid.
  • Invade Persia, and are guilty of many horrid outrages, produced by an insatiable zeal for the Turkish superstition, ibid.
  • Are attacked, defeated, and dispersed by Thamas Kouli Khan, 353.
• Africa, when first visited by the European inhabitants of the Caribbee islands in search of cultivators, v, iii. p. 358, 359.
  • Its boundaries, with the opinions of the learned concerning the eastern coast, 360.
  • Opinions of the learned concerning the northern coast, and the revolutions which have taken place in it, ib. 369,
  • Present state of its commerce with Europe, 369. 371.
  • What is the climate of the western coast, known by the name of Guinea, 372. 376.
  • Nature and mode of electing to the sovereignties of Benin, Juda, Mayumba, Cilongo, Loango, and Congo, countries on the coast of Guinea, 379.
  • View of the system of war and politics, adopted by its several states on the western coast, 381, 382.
  • Different religions prevail in its different provinces, and what they are, 383, 384.
  • Sketch of the manners, customs, and amusements of the inhabitants of Guinea, 385. 390.
  • What is the most favourable season for travelling in the interior parts of this country, 399.
  • What coasts arc most frequented for the purpose of carrying on the slave trade, ib. What number of slaves it actually exported in 1768, and what it is supposed to export every year, 400.
  • Account of the different effects produced by the small-pox on the negroes born to the North of the Line from those born to the South, 409.
  • The wretched and miserable slate of its natives (the negroes) when carried to America—where an opinion universally prevails, that negroes are incapable of reason and virtue—with an impartial enquiry into the falsity of this opinion, proved by two circumstantial facts, 412, 413, 414.
  • Description of the bison, an animal found in melt parts of this country, 443, 444.
• Agriculture, its reciprocal dependence upon, and union with, commerce, v. v. p. 480.
  • The chief and real cause of opulence in a nation, 482.
  • Very much neglected by the Romans and the northern conquerors of Europe, ib. Much encouraged in Europe, when the American colonies increased in population, 482.
  • Its improved slate among the English, French, Germans, Italians, and Spaniards, ib, 480.
  • Deserves the principal attention of every wife government, with the several reasons, 487. 488.
• Alexandria, the mart of all merchandize from India to Berenice in time of Ptolemy, v. i. p. 68.
• Alphanso Albuquerque, the most sagacious of all the Portuguese in the conquest of the Indies, v. i. p. 65.
  • Projects the turning the course of the Nile, and endeavours to persuade the emperor of Ethiopia to carry it into execution, with his reasons, 80.
  • Deprives the Turks of their trade to India, with the advantages which all Europe derived from this measure, ib, 83.
  • A sketch of his great character, and the veneration which the Indians had for him, 99.
  • Being traduced by his enemies, he died at Goa, in 1515, without riches and out of favour with his sovereign Emanuel, 100.
• Amazons, the real existence of the people known by this name, proved to be uncertain, v. iii. p. 157, 158.
  • Description of the manners of the natives bordering upon this river, with the state of the Portuguese settlement, 163, 164, 165.
  • Produce of the country adjacent to it, 167.
• Ambayna (one of the Moluccas), its value to the Dutch from the cultivation of cloves in it—the encouragement given to the planters—and the method of increasing its trade by the successful culture of pepper and indigo, v, i. p. 188.
  • An account of a very extraordinary treaty between the English and Dutch at this place in 1619, with its fate, 306. 309.
• America, by called the West indie, v. iii. p. 119.
  • No conquests made in it by the English and Dutch during the war for the Spanish succession, with the reasons, 310–315.
  • Cause of the war, in 1755, between the English and French, 323. 328.
  • The general opinion which prevails here of the negroes, that they are incapable of reason and virtue—proved to be false and erroneous, 412, 413.
• America, the different and respective advantages which Europe derives from this country, as divided into North and South—with a general view of the different degrees of population, climate, plantations, and commerce in each; and the manners of the refpe&ive inhabitants of each country, v. iv. p. 122, 123,
• America, what influence the religious disputes in England, in xvii cent, produced in peopling this continent, v. v. p. 102.
  • in. Reasons why so little of it was known, for so long time after it was discovered, 112.
  • Its analogy to the rest of the globe, exemplified in the singular similarit...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table Of Contents
• ACCOUNT of tht French Stlllmtnts in North-Amerita continued
• English colonies Settled at Hudfon's Bay, founaland, Nova Scotia, New England. New York, and New Jersey
• English colonies founded in Pensylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. General reflections on all these Sattlements
• A view of the ejfefts, produced by the connections of the Europeans with the Americans, on the Religion, Government, Policy, War, Navy, Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Population, Public Credit, Fine Arts and Belles Lettres, Pbilofopby, and Morals of Europe
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