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The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed
Av Ursula Lamb
Inbunden, 1995
3138 kr
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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 …
Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion
Av Judy Bieber
Inbunden, 1997
2184 kr
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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 …
Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World, 1450–1800
Inbunden, 1996
3883 kr
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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 …
European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia
Av Om Prakash
Inbunden, 1997
3138 kr
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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 …
Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand
Inbunden, 1998
2810 kr
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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 …
Spices in the Indian Ocean World
Av M.N. Pearson
Inbunden, 1996
3138 kr
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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 …
Slave Trades, 1500–1800
Globalization of Forced Labour
Inbunden, 1996
1021 kr
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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 …
Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas
Inbunden, 1997
7759 kr
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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 …
Technology and European Overseas Enterprise
Diffusion, Adaptation and Adoption
Av Michael Adas
Inbunden, 1996
2571 kr
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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 …
Facing Each Other (2 Volumes)
The World’s Perception of Europe and Europe’s Perception of the World
2000
7040 kr
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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 …
Warfare and Empires
Contact and Conflict Between European and Non-European Military and Maritime Forces and Cultures
Inbunden, 1997
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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 …
Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy
Av Arturo Giráldez, Dennis O. Flynn
Inbunden, 1997
2184 kr
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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 …
The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed
Av Ursula Lamb
Häftad, 2016
884 kr
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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
Häftad, 2016
884 kr
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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 …
Spices in the Indian Ocean World
Av M.N. Pearson
Häftad, 2016
944 kr
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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 European Opportunity
Inbunden, 1995
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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 …
Establishing Exceptionalism
Historiography and the Colonial Americas
Inbunden, 1995
2114 kr
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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 …
The Atlantic Staple Trade
Volume 1: Commerce and Politics; Volume 2: The Economics of Trade
Inbunden, 1996
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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 - …
Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change
Inbunden, 1997
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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 …
Biological Consequences of the European Expansion, 1450–1800
Av Stephen V. Beck, Kenneth F. Kiple
Inbunden, 1997
2182 kr
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’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 …
European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and Customs in Africa, America and Asia before 1800
Av Evelyn S. Rawski, Murdo J. MacLeod
Inbunden, 1998
960 kr
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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, …
