Agents of European Overseas Empires
Private Colonisers, 1450-1800
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke editor L H Roper editor Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber editor Agnès Delahaye editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Published:12th Mar '24
Should be back in stock very soon
Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: ‘private’ European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities. The chapters adopt intra- as well as inter-imperial perspectives and transport the reader to colonial America, the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, or Ceylon, through the Dutch, English, French and Spanish empires. Agents of European overseas empires offers crucial insight on how these actors acquired profits and power and, in turn, laid the platforms for European global empires.
ISBN: 9781526167330
Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 17mm
Weight: 473g
280 pages