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An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800


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Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy

Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy

1st Edition

By Arturo Giráldez, Dennis O. Flynn
May 29, 1997

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 ...

Biological Consequences of the European Expansion, 1450–1800

Biological Consequences of the European Expansion, 1450–1800

1st Edition

By Stephen V. Beck, Kenneth F. Kiple
October 16, 1997

’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 (...

Establishing Exceptionalism Historiography and the Colonial Americas

Establishing Exceptionalism: Historiography and the Colonial Americas

1st Edition

Edited By Amy Turner Bushnell
December 14, 1995

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 ...

Warfare and Empires Contact and Conflict Between European and Non-European Military and Maritime Forces and Cultures

Warfare and Empires: Contact and Conflict Between European and Non-European Military and Maritime Forces and Cultures

1st Edition

Edited By Douglas M. Peers
October 23, 1997

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 ...

Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change

Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change

1st Edition

Edited By Helen Wheatley
July 24, 1997

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 ...

European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia

European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Om Prakash
April 24, 1997

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 ...

Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas

Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Bakewell
May 29, 1997

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 ...

Families in the Expansion of Europe,1500-1800

Families in the Expansion of Europe,1500-1800

1st Edition

By Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva
October 26, 1998

This volume presents legal, religious and demographic aspects of the transfer of European family organisations to new environments in the overseas colonies, and illustrates the impacts of contact with other ethnic groups. In Africa the focus is on the Cape, the principal area of European settlement...

The European Opportunity

The European Opportunity

1st Edition

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto
September 14, 1995

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 ...

Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1450–1800

Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1450–1800

1st Edition

Edited By Anthony Disney
December 14, 1995

The first part of this volume deals with the changes and continuities in historical approaches over the last fifty years, with three further sections focusing on initial contacts, formal presences, and informal presences. Emphasis has been placed on the major European players in Asia and Africa ...

Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion

Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion

1st Edition

Edited By Judy Bieber
July 03, 1997

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...

European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and Customs in Africa, America and Asia before 1800

European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and Customs in Africa, America and Asia before 1800

1st Edition

By Evelyn S. Rawski, Murdo J. MacLeod
October 28, 1998

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,...

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