| Description |
202 pages : maps ; 21 cm. |
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Harper torchbooks. Academy library ; TB1045 |
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Harper torchbooks. Academy library.
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| Note |
Originally published in 1949 under the title Europe and a wider world, 1415-1715. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-197) and index. |
| Contents |
The tools of the explorers. Charts ; Ships ; Guns -- 'Christians and spices. The sea crusaders ; The cape of storms ; The spice trade ; The Portuguese Indies -- The new world. The fortunate isles ; Discovery ; The interpretation of discovery ; The division of the world -- The silver empire. The Spanish conquest ; The theory of empire ; Soldiers, missionaries and lawyers ; Atlantic trade and the silver fleets -- Fishermen, explorers and slavers. The Atlantic fisheries ; The Search for a Northern passage ; The interlopers in America ; The Privateers -- The struggle for Eastern trade. The Muslim east ; The decline of Portuguese power ; The companies ; The dutch east indies -- The English plantations. The theory of settlement ; The planting companies ; The Puritans -- Rival empires in America. The French in Canada ; West Indian rivalries ; The Portuguese in Brazil ; The Dutch on the High Seas -- The old colonial system. The plantations in 1660 ; The acts of trade ; New York and New England ; Louisiana and Hudson's Bay -- Trade and Dominion in the East. Exploration and expansion in the far east ; Dutch rule in the Islands ; Rival powers in India -- Slavery and the war for trade. Slavery in Spanish America ; Slavery in the Sugar Islands ; The Asientos ; The Spanish Succession -- The bounds of Christendom, 1715. |
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Colonization -- History.
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Commerce -- History.
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Europe -- History -- 1492-1648.
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Europe -- History -- 1648-1789.
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Colonization. (OCoLC)fst00868483
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Commerce. (OCoLC)fst00869279
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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| Chronological Term |
1492-1789
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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