Agents of European Overseas Empires
Delahaye, Agnes / Ruymbeke, Bertrand Van / Peyrol-Kleiber, Elodie / Roper, L. H.
Agents of European overseas empires overhauls our understanding of early modern European imperial history and the extent of the participation of early modern polities in the conduct of European overseas trade and colonisation. Contributions from historians based in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States focus on the 'private' interests that initiated the pursuit of overseas commercial and colonising interests during the ...