Agnès Delahaye is Professor of American History at Lyon 2 UniversityElodie Peyrol-Kleiber is Associate Professor of American History at Poitiers UniversityL. H. Roper is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York at New PaltzBertrand Van Ruymbeke is Professor of American History at Paris 8 University (Vincennes Saint-Denis)

‘Adds new perspectives and voices to the history of imperialism within the early modern Atlantic world … The book’s organization also lends itself toward serving as a valuable pedagogical tool … a powerful and convincing invitation to reimagine the early modern Atlantic.’—Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 55, no. 3-4

• IntroductionAgnès Delahaye, Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, L. H. Roper & Bertrand Van RuymbekePart I: Tensions within imperial projects1 Global trade and its benefits for ‘the nation’: the examples of early modern France and BritainSusanne Lachenicht2 Comparing and criticising early modern imperial policies in the Age of Revolution: Abbé Raynal’s Histoire philosophique et politique des deux IndesFrançois Brizay3 Global pursuits: English overseas initiatives of the long seventeenth century in perspectiveL. H. RoperPart II: The limits of imperial control4 The limits of royal control over migration to Spanish America in thesixteenth centuryEric Roulet5 Imperial struggles, colonisation and the Dutch slave trade in seventeenth century New NetherlandAnne-Claire Faucquez6 The control of unfree labour across the Dutch empire in the eighteenth centuryElisabeth Heijmans & Rafaël ThiebautPart III: Local adaptations and developments7 Settler colonialism and early American historyTrevor Burnard & Agnès Delahaye8 Colonising the Cape of Good Hope: company policy and settlers’ interests in a contested space of European occupation in Southern AfricaMarilyn Garcia-Chapleau9 Shipping mules in the eighteenth century: New England’s equine exports to the West IndiesCharlotte Carrington-FarmerEpilogue: Perspectives on the mechanisms and impacts of overseas colonisation in the early modern era – then and nowBertrand Van Ruymbeke