The European Seaborne Empires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The European Seaborne Empires write by Gabriel Paquette. This book was released on 2019-05-28. The European Seaborne Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to examine their development, from efficacious forms of governance to coercive violence. Beginning with a narrative overview of imperial expansion that incorporates recent critiques of older scholarly approaches, Paquette then analyzes the significance of these empires, including their political, economic, and social consequences and legacies. He makes the multifaceted history of Europe’s globe-spanning empires in this crucial period accessible to new readers.
Spanish Seaborne Empire
Spanish Seaborne Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish Seaborne Empire write by John Horace Parry. This book was released on 2012-09-05. Spanish Seaborne Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early nineteenth century in civil wars between rival generals and "liberators." Parry presents a broad picture of the conquests of Cortès and Pizarro and of the economic and social consequences in Spain of the effort to maintain control of vast holdings. He probes the complex administration of the empire, its economy, social structure, the influence of the Church, the destruction of the Indian cultures and the effect of their decline on Spanish policy. As we approach the quincentenary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, Parry provides the historical basis for a new consideration of the former Spanish colonies of Latin America and the transformation of pre-Columbian cultures to colonial states.
Empires of the Sea
Empires of the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires of the Sea write by . This book was released on 2019-10-07. Empires of the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.
The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800
The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800 write by C. R. Boxer. This book was released on 1977. The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The British Seaborne Empire
The British Seaborne Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Seaborne Empire write by Jeremy Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01. The British Seaborne Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire. The oceans and their shores, rather than the mysterious interiors of continents, certainly dominated the English perception of the transoceanic world in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, climaxing in the fascination with the Pacific in the age of Captain Cook, and continuing into the nineteenth century, with Franklin in the Arctic and Ross in the Antarctic. The oceans offered much more than fascination. In England, from the late sixteenth century, maritime conflict and imperial strength were seen as important to national morale and reputation and without it there would have been no empire, or at least not in the form it actually took."--BOOK JACKET.
