DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

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 cover

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